cuirín

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Irish

cuiríní

Etymology

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”), modified to contain the suffix -ín.

Noun

cuirín m (genitive singular cuirín, nominative plural cuiríní)

  1. currant (fruit of the genus Ribes)

Declension

Declension of cuirín

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuirín cuiríní
Vocative a chuirín a chuiríní
Genitive cuirín cuiríní
Dative cuirín cuiríní

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cuirín na cuiríní
Genitive an chuirín na gcuiríní
Dative leis an gcuirín

don chuirín

leis na cuiríní

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuirín chuirín gcuirín
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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