cleamhnaí

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cleamhnach (“having connections by marriage”) +‎ -aí.

Pronunciation

Noun

cleamhnaí m (genitive singular cleamhnaí, nominative plural cleamhnaithe)

  1. relative by marriage, in-law
  2. (Ulster) son-in-law

Declension

Declension of cleamhnaí (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cleamhnaí cleamhnaithe
vocative a chleamhnaí a chleamhnaithe
genitive cleamhnaí cleamhnaithe
dative cleamhnaí cleamhnaithe
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cleamhnaí na cleamhnaithe
genitive an chleamhnaí na gcleamhnaithe
dative leis an gcleamhnaí
don chleamhnaí 		leis na cleamhnaithe

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleamhnaí
radical lenition eclipsis
cleamhnaí chleamhnaí gcleamhnaí

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

References

  1. ^ “cleamhnaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 144, page 57
  3. ^ Wagner, Heinrich (1959) Gaeilge Theilinn: Foghraidheacht, Gramadach, Téacsanna [The Irish of Teelin: Phonetics, Grammar, Texts] (in Irish), Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath , section 217, page 78; reprinted 1979

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