pingin

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish pinginn, penginn,[1] likely borrowed from Old English penning and possibly reinforced or influenced by Old Norse penningr, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

pingin f (genitive singular pingine or pingne, nominative plural pinginí or ping(i)neacha) (genitive singular form is used after numbers)

  1. penny

Declension

Declension of pingin (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pingin pinginí
vocative a phingin a phinginí
genitive pingine pinginí
dative pingin pinginí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an phingin na pinginí
genitive na pingine na bpinginí
dative leis an bpingin
don phingin 		leis na pinginí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of pingin
radical lenition eclipsis
pingin phingin bpingin

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), “pinginn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Greene, D. (1976) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dublin 15–21 August 1973, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82
  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, § 74, page 40
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 303, page 107

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