cíoná

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Noun

cíoná m (genitive singular cíoná)

  1. (card games) five of trumps (at game of twenty-five, etc.)
  2. chief, champion; star

Declension

Declension of cíoná (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cíoná
vocative a chíoná
genitive cíoná
dative cíoná
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cíoná
genitive an chíoná
dative leis an gcíoná
don chíoná

Derived terms

  • an cíoná a tharraingt as cúl do ghlaice (“pull a rabbit out of a hat”)
  • cíoná na cuideachta (“star turn”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cíoná
radical lenition eclipsis
cíoná chíoná gcíoná

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

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