pónaire

Irish

Alternative forms

  • póire, pónair, pónar, pónnra, pónra[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish pónair, from Old Norse baunir (“beans”), from Proto-Germanic *baunō.

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠɔːnˠəɾʲə/, /ˈpˠɔːn̪ˠəɾʲə/[2]

Noun

pónaire f (genitive singular pónaire, nominative plural pónairí)

  1. bean
  2. (collective) beans

Declension

Declension of pónaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pónaire pónairí
vocative a phónaire a phónairí
genitive pónaire pónairí
dative pónaire pónairí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an phónaire na pónairí
genitive na pónaire na bpónairí
dative leis an bpónaire
don phónaire 		leis na pónairí

Derived terms

  • gas pónaire (“beanstalk”)
  • pónaire chapaill (“buckbean”)
  • pónaire chorraigh (“bog bean”)
  • pónaire dhuánach (“kidney bean”)
  • pónaire fhada (“kidney bean”)
  • pónaire Fhrancach (“French bean, haricot bean”)
  • pónaire leathan (“broad bean”)
  • pónaire lócaiste (“locust bean”)
  • pónaire mhór (“lima bean”)
  • pónaire reatha (“scarlet runner, runner bean”)
  • pónaire shoighe (“soybean”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pónaire
radical lenition eclipsis
pónaire phónaire bpónaire

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

References

  1. ^ “pónaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 360, page 123

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