canúint

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish canamain (“singing, chanting”) (verbal noun of canaid). By surface analysis, can +‎ -úint.

Pronunciation

Noun

canúint f (genitive singular canúna, nominative plural canúintí)

  1. dialect, idiom, lingo, accent

Declension

Declension of canúint (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative canúint canúintí
vocative a chanúint a chanúintí
genitive canúna canúintí
dative canúint canúintí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chanúint na canúintí
genitive na canúna na gcanúintí
dative leis an gcanúint
don chanúint 		leis na canúintí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of canúint
radical lenition eclipsis
canúint chanúint gcanúint

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

References

  1. ^ “canúint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 21

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