cliamhain

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish clíamain (“male relative-in-law”).[1]

Noun

cliamhain m (genitive singular cliamhain or cleamhna, nominative plural cliamhaineacha or cleamhnacha or cliamhnacha)

  1. son-in-law

Declension

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Declension of cliamhain (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cliamhain cliamhaineacha
vocative a chliamhain a chliamhaineacha
genitive cliamhain cliamhaineacha
dative cliamhain cliamhaineacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cliamhain na cliamhaineacha
genitive an chliamhain na gcliamhaineacha
dative leis an gcliamhain
don chliamhain 		leis na cliamhaineacha

Alternative inflection (third declension):

Declension of cliamhain (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cliamhain cleamhnacha
vocative a chliamhain a chleamhnacha
genitive cleamhna cleamhnacha
dative cliamhain cleamhnacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cliamhain na cleamhnacha
genitive an chleamhna na gcleamhnacha
dative leis an gcliamhain
don chliamhain 		leis na cleamhnacha

Derived terms

  • banchliamhain (“daughter-in-law”)
  • cleamhnach (“related by marriage”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cliamhain
radical lenition eclipsis
cliamhain chliamhain gcliamhain

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clíamain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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