soimeach

soimeach
prosperous, easy, easy circumstanced, good-natured, seems to combine Old Irish somme, dives, and Old Irish soinmech, lucky, good, Irish soinmheach, fortunate, happy. The former Stokes derives from so-imbi-s, for which See iomadh; the latter is so-nem-ech, root nem, under nèamh. Middle Irish somenmnach, good-spirited, is from meanmna.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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