leanúint

Irish

Alternative forms

  • leanacht (Galway)
  • leanstan, leanstain
  • leanamhain, leanamhaint, leanmhain, leanmhaint (superseded)[1]
  • leanamhuin, leanamhuint, leanmhuin, leanmhuint, lenmain, lenmhain (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish lenamain.[2] By surface analysis, lean +‎ -úint.

Pronunciation

Noun

leanúint f (genitive singular leanúna)

  1. verbal noun of lean

Declension

Declension of leanúint (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative leanúint
vocative a leanúint
genitive leanúna
dative leanúint
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an leanúint
genitive na leanúna
dative leis an leanúint
don leanúint

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “leanṁain”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 426
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lenamain, lenmain”, 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, § 290, page 145
  4. ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974) Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 125
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 21
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