Etymology

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Today it means: A twelfth part of a ploughland / carucate Full definition →

Irish gníomh ← Old Irish gním ← Proto-Celtic *gnīmus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵenh₁-
  2. Proto-Celtic · derived from*gnīmus
  3. Old Irish · derived fromgním
  4. Irish · borrowed fromgníomh
  5. English todaygneeve

Borrowed from Irish gníomh, from Old Irish gním, from Proto-Celtic *gnīmus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁- all →

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