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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish dignit (“dignity, rank”), from Latin dīgnitās.
Noun
dínit f (genitive singular dínite)
- dignity
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| dínit
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dhínit
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ndínit
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dínit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dignit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “dínit”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “dínit”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024