Iúgslaiv

Irish

Alternative forms

  • Iúgslaive

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jugo (“south”) and slavija (“slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, “the land of the southern Slavs”.

Proper noun

An Iúgslaiv f (genitive na hIúgslaive)

  1. (historical) Yugoslavia (a former country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia)

Declension

Declension of Iúgslaiv (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Iúgslaiv
vocative a Iúgslaiv
genitive Iúgslaive
dative Iúgslaiv
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an Iúgslaiv
genitive na hIúgslaive
dative leis an Iúgslaiv
don Iúgslaiv

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Iúgslaiv
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Iúgslaiv nIúgslaiv hIúgslaiv not applicable

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

Further reading

  • “Yugoslavia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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