cuireata

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Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

cuireata m (genitive singular cuireata, nominative plural cuireataí)

  1. (card games) jack, knave

Declension

Declension of cuireata (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cuireata cuireataí
vocative a chuireata a chuireataí
genitive cuireata cuireataí
dative cuireata cuireataí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cuireata na cuireataí
genitive an chuireata na gcuireataí
dative leis an gcuireata
don chuireata 		leis na cuireataí

See also

Playing cards in Irish · cártaí imeartha (layout · text)
aon dó trí ceathair cúig sé seacht
ocht naoi deich cuireata banríon rí fear na gcrúb, buachaill mór

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuireata
radical lenition eclipsis
cuireata chuireata gcuireata

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 232, page 85

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