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Irish
Etymology 1
From cnaipe (“button”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).
Noun
cnaipín m (genitive singular cnaipín, nominative plural cnaipíní)
- diminutive of cnaipe
- little button
Etymology 2
From cnap (“knob”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).
Noun
cnaipín m (genitive singular cnaipín, nominative plural cnaipíní)
- diminutive of cnap
- little knob or lump; nugget
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cnaipín
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chnaipín
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gcnaipín
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cnaipín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 155
- “nugget”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024