From Old Irish demin (“sure, certain, undoubted”) (compare Scottish Gaelic deimhinn).
deimhin (genitive singular masculine deimhin, genitive singular feminine deimhne, plural deimhne, comparative deimhne)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | deimhin | dheimhin | deimhne; dheimhne² | |
| Vocative | dheimhin | deimhne | ||
| Genitive | deimhne | deimhne | deimhin | |
| Dative | deimhin; dheimhin¹ |
dheimhin | deimhne; dheimhne² | |
| Comparative | níos deimhne | |||
| Superlative | is deimhne | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
deimhin f (genitive singular deimhne)
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Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| deimhin | dheimhin | ndeimhin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||