creamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crem (“dog's leek, wild garlick leek, gentian, buckrams”).

Noun

creamh m (genitive singular creamha)

  1. wild garlic, ramsons

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
creamh chreamh gcreamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "creamh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “crem” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crem (“dog's leek, wild garlick leek, gentian, buckrams”).

Noun

creamh m (genitive singular creamha, plural creamhan)

  1. gentian
  2. hart's tongue fern
  3. garlic
  4. leeks
  5. elecampane
  6. beer

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • creamh-gàrraidh m, creamh-ghàraidh m (“chives; leek”)
  • creamh mac-féidh m (“asparagus; hart's tongue fern; elecampane”)
  • creamh-na-muice-fiadhaich m (“asparagus; hart's tongue fern”)
  • creamh nan creag m (“rocambole”, literally “rock garlic”)

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “crem” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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