cloisint

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cloisin +‎ -t.[1]

Noun

cloisint f (genitive singular cloisinte)

  1. verbal noun of clois
    Synonyms: cloisteáil, clos, cluinstin
    Bhí an teanga le cloisint ar gach taoibh. ― The language could be heard on every side.

Declension

Declension of cloisint (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cloisint
vocative a chloisint
genitive cloisinte
dative cloisint
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chloisint
genitive na cloisinte
dative leis an gcloisint
don chloisint

Mutation

Mutated forms of cloisint
radical lenition eclipsis
cloisint chloisint gcloisint

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), “cloisin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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