oinniún

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Irish

oinniún

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish uinniún,[2] uinneman,[3] from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniō.

Pronunciation

Noun

oinniún m (genitive singular oinniúin, nominative plural oinniúin)

  1. onion

Declension

Declension of oinniún (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative oinniún oinniúin
vocative a oinniúin a oinniúna
genitive oinniúin oinniún
dative oinniún oinniúin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-oinniún na hoinniúin
genitive an oinniúin na n-oinniún
dative leis an oinniún
don oinniún 		leis na hoinniúin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of oinniún
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oinniún n-oinniún hoinniún t-oinniún

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

References

  1. ^ “oinniún”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uinniún”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uinneman”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann , →ISBN, section 10, page 17
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 142
  6. ^ Lucas, Leslie W. (1979) Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 5), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 285

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