flaithiúnas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • flaithiúnachas, flaithiúnacht
  • flaitheamhnachas, flaitheamhnas, flaitheamhnus (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish flaithemnas.[2] By surface analysis, flaith +‎ -únas.

Noun

flaithiúnas m (genitive singular flaithiúnais, nominative plural flaithiúnais)

  1. sovereignty, kingdom, rule, realm
  2. (Christianity) Kingdom of Heaven, Heaven

Declension

Declension of flaithiúnas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative flaithiúnas flaithiúnais
vocative a fhlaithiúnais a fhlaithiúnasa
genitive flaithiúnais flaithiúnas
dative flaithiúnas flaithiúnais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an flaithiúnas na flaithiúnais
genitive an fhlaithiúnais na bhflaithiúnas
dative leis an bhflaithiúnas
don fhlaithiúnas 		leis na flaithiúnais

Mutation

Mutated forms of flaithiúnas
radical lenition eclipsis
flaithiúnas fhlaithiúnas bhflaithiúnas

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

References

  1. ^ “flaithiúnas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “flaithemnas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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