deichniúr

Irish

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    Cardinal: deich
    Ordinal: deichiú
    Personal: deichniúr

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish dechnebor, dechneabur, from Old Irish dechenbor.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

deichniúr m (genitive singular deichniúir, nominative plural deichniúir) (triggers no mutation)

  1. a group of ten people
    Cailleadh deichniúr saighdiúirí sa chath. ― Ten soldiers died in the battle.
  2. decade (series of ten Hail Marys in the Rosary)

Usage notes

  • Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings; also sometimes used with other nouns, especially if the things they denote are being personified.

Declension

Declension of deichniúr (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative deichniúr deichniúir
vocative a dheichniúir a dheichniúra
genitive deichniúir deichniúr
dative deichniúr deichniúir
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an deichniúr na deichniúir
genitive an deichniúir na ndeichniúr
dative leis an deichniúr
don deichniúr 		leis na deichniúir
  • deich (“ten”) (non-personal)

Mutation

Mutated forms of deichniúr
radical lenition eclipsis
deichniúr dheichniúr ndeichniúr

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), “deichenbor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 22

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