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Icelandic
Noun
tóin
- definite nominative singular of tó
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish tón (“anus”), from Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. Cognate with English thigh. Compare Scottish Gaelic tòin.
Pronunciation
Noun
tóin f (genitive singular tóna, nominative plural tóineanna)
- buttocks
- arse, bum, ass, butt
- rear, back
- (nautical) aft, stern
- (architecture, of a building) basement, cellar
Declension
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Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tóin
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thóin
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dtóin
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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
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 393
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 93
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