dunnart

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English

A slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)
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Etymology

Probably borrowed from Nyunga danard (Sminthopsis griseoventer).

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Noun

dunnart (plural dunnarts)

  1. Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
    • 2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158:
      After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.
    • 2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:
      During the original AWC survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.
    • 2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7:
      Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dunnart, from Nyunga danard (probably Sminthopsis griseoventer).

Noun

dunnart m (genitive singular dunnairt, nominative plural dunnairt)

  1. dunnart

Declension

Declension of dunnart (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative dunnart dunnairt
vocative a dhunnairt a dhunnarta
genitive dunnairt dunnart
dative dunnart dunnairt
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an dunnart na dunnairt
genitive an dunnairt na ndunnart
dative leis an dunnart
don dunnart
leis na dunnairt

Mutation

Mutated forms of dunnart
radical lenition eclipsis
dunnart dhunnart ndunnart

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