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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish eidneán, eidnén m (“an ivy-plant”), from eidenn m (“ivy”). By surface analysis, eidheann (“ivy”) + -án.
Noun
eidhneán m (genitive singular eidhneáin)
- ivy
- ivy branch
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eidhneán
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n-eidhneán
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heidhneán
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t-eidhneán
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eidhneán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eidneán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eidnén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language