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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English drain, from the verb, from Middle English dreinen, from Old English drēahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną (“to strain, sieve”), from *draugiz (“dry, parched”).
Pronunciation
Noun
draein f (genitive singular draenach, nominative plural draenacha)
- drain (conduit for liquids)
Declension
Noun
draein
- vocative/genitive singular of draen
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| draein
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dhraein
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ndraein
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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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