cleamhnas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish clemnas, from the root of cliamhain +‎ -as.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

cleamhnas m (genitive singular cleamhnais, nominative plural cleamhnais or cleamhnaistí)

  1. relationship or connection by marriage, affinity (family relationship through marriage)
    i gcleamhnas ― related by marriage
  2. marriage alliance
  3. match (arrangement of marriage), arranged marriage
    déanamh cleamhnais ― matchmaking
  4. betrothal, espousal

Declension

Declension of cleamhnas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cleamhnas cleamhnais
vocative a chleamhnais a chleamhnasa
genitive cleamhnais cleamhnas
dative cleamhnas cleamhnais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cleamhnas na cleamhnais
genitive an chleamhnais na gcleamhnas
dative leis an gcleamhnas
don chleamhnas 		leis na cleamhnais
  • Alternative plural (all cases): cleamhnaistí

Derived terms

  • cleamhnas cumainn (“love match”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleamhnas
radical lenition eclipsis
cleamhnas chleamhnas gcleamhnas

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

References

  1. ^ “cleamhnas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clemnas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 201, page 101

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