deamhais

deamhais, deimheis

shears, Irish deimheas (pronounced díos), Early Irish demess, *di-mess, "two-edged"; from di of da, two, and Early Irish mess, edge (Cormac's Gl.), "cutter", from root met, mow, cut, as in meath, meith, cut, prune, Latin meto. Cf. Gaul, mataris.