dinnéar

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See also: dínnéar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish dinér, dinnér, from Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from Late Latin disieiūnō (“to break the fast”), from, dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from ieiūnus (“fasting, abstinent, hungry”, adjective).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

dinnéar m (genitive singular dinnéir, nominative plural dinnéir)

  1. dinner (evening meal)

Declension

Declension of dinnéar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative dinnéar dinnéir
vocative a dhinnéir a dhinnéara
genitive dinnéir dinnéar
dative dinnéar dinnéir
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an dinnéar na dinnéir
genitive an dinnéir na ndinnéar
dative leis an dinnéar
don dinnéar 		leis na dinnéir

Mutation

Mutated forms of dinnéar
radical lenition eclipsis
dinnéar dhinnéar ndinnéar

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), “dínér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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