Gearmáin

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish Germáin, from Latin Germānia.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

An Ghearmáin f (genitive na Gearmáine)

  1. Germany (a country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany; official name: Poblacht Chónaidhme na Gearmáine)

Usage notes

Always preceded by the definite article.

Declension

Declension of Gearmáin (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative Gearmáin
vocative a Ghearmáin
genitive Gearmáine
dative Gearmáin
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an Ghearmáin
genitive na Gearmáine
dative leis an nGearmáin
don Ghearmáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Gearmáin
radical lenition eclipsis
Gearmáin Ghearmáin nGearmáin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Germáin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 133

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