cíoná

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Noun

cíoná m (genitive singular cíoná)

  1. (card games) five of trumps (at game of twenty-five, etc.)
  2. chief, champion; star

Declension

Declension of cíoná (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cíoná
vocative a chíoná
genitive cíoná
dative cíoná
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an cíoná
genitive an chíoná
dative leis an gcíoná
don chíoná

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cíoná
radical lenition eclipsis
cíoná chíoná gcíoná

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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