coinín

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Irish

coinín

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle English or Anglo-Norman conin, ultimately from Latin cunīculus (“rabbit”), adapted to the suffix -ín. The sense “vagina” may be a semantic loan from English cunny.

Pronunciation

Noun

coinín m (genitive singular coinín, nominative plural coiníní)

  1. rabbit (mammal)
  2. (vulgar, colloquial) vagina

Declension

Declension of coinín

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coinín coiníní
Vocative a choinín a choiníní
Genitive coinín coiníní
Dative coinín coiníní

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an coinín na coiníní
Genitive an choinín na gcoiníní
Dative leis an gcoinín

don choinín

leis na coiníní

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coinín choinín gcoinín
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 33, page 19
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90

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