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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish súantraige. By surface analysis, suan (“sleep”) + -traí (“type of music”).
Noun
suantraí f (genitive singular suantraí, nominative plural suantraithe)
- lullaby
Declension
See also
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| suantraí
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shuantraí
after an, tsuantraí
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not applicable
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suantraí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “suantraí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “suantraí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024