dúnorgain

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dún- +‎ orgain, an alternative form of argain (“destruction”). The word does not appear in the Historical Irish Corpus (1600–1926) nor in either edition of Dinneen’s dictionary, so it may be a modern learned borrowing from Middle Irish duinorcun and Classical Gaelic dunoirccne.[1]

Noun

dúnorgain f (genitive singular dúnorgana)

  1. (law) manslaughter

Declension

Declension of dúinorgain (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative dúinorgain
vocative a dhúinorgain
genitive dúnorgana
dative dúinorgain
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an dúinorgain
genitive na dúnorgana
dative leis an dúinorgain
don dúinorgain

Mutation

Mutated forms of dúnorgain
radical lenition eclipsis
dúnorgain dhúnorgain ndúnorgain

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duinorcun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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