aintéinín

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Irish

Etymology

From aintéine (“antenna”) +‎ -ín (diminutive suffix).

Noun

aintéinín m (genitive singular aintéinín, nominative plural aintéiníní)

  1. (zoology) antennule

Declension

Declension of aintéinín (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aintéinín aintéiníní
vocative a aintéinín a aintéiníní
genitive aintéinín aintéiníní
dative aintéinín aintéiníní
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-aintéinín na haintéiníní
genitive an aintéinín na n-aintéiníní
dative leis an aintéinín
don aintéinín 		leis na haintéiníní

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of aintéinín
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aintéinín n-aintéinín haintéinín t-aintéinín

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

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