Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish adnáire f (“great shame”), from ad- + náire f (“shamefacedness, bashfulness, diffidence, backwardness or reluctance; modesty, sense of decorum, nobility of behaviour, generosity”).
Noun
adhnáire f (genitive singular adhnáire)
- shame
- modesty
Declension
Declension of adhnáire (fourth declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
- adhnáireach (“shameful; modest”, adjective)
- adhnáirigh (“shame, disgrace; cause to blush”, transitive verb)
Mutation
Mutated forms of adhnáire
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| adhnáire
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n-adhnáire
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hadhnáire
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhnáire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adnáire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhnáire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm