deichniúr

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Irish

deichniúr

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish dechnebor, dechneabur, from Old Irish dechenbor.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

deichniúr m (genitive singular deichniúir, nominative plural deichniúir) (triggers no mutation)

  1. a group of ten people
    Cailleadh deichniúr saighdiúirí sa chath. ― Ten soldiers died in the battle.
  2. decade (series of ten Hail Marys in the Rosary)

Usage notes

  • Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings; also sometimes used with other nouns, especially if the things they denote are being personified.

Declension

Declension of deichniúr

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative deichniúr deichniúir
Vocative a dheichniúir a dheichniúra
Genitive deichniúir deichniúr
Dative deichniúr deichniúir

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an deichniúr na deichniúir
Genitive an deichniúir na ndeichniúr
Dative leis an deichniúr

don deichniúr

leis na deichniúir

  • deich (“ten”) (non-personal)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deichniúr dheichniúr ndeichniúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deichenbor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 22

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