pingin

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish pinginn, penginn, likely borrowed from Old English penning and possibly reinforced or influenced by Old Norse penningr, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

pingin f (genitive singular pingine or pingne, nominative plural pinginí or ping(i)neacha) (genitive singular form is used after numbers)

  1. penny

Declension

Declension of pingin

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pingin pinginí
Vocative a phingin a phinginí
Genitive pingine pinginí
Dative pingin pinginí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an phingin na pinginí
Genitive na pingine na bpinginí
Dative leis an bpingin

don phingin

leis na pinginí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pingin phingin bpingin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pinginn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Greene, D. (1973) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist & David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 303, page 107

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