pionna

French

Verb

pionna

third-person singular past historic of pionner

Irish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English pinne.

Noun

pionna m (genitive singular pionna, nominative plural pionnaí)

pin, peg
Synonyms: bacán, maide, tairne
nail
Synonym: tairne
(nautical) coak
(sports, in the plural) ninepins, skittles

Derived terms

pionna acastóra (“axle-pin”)
pionna buailte (“percussion-pin”)
pionna crangaide (“wrist-pin”)
pionna éadaigh (“clothes peg, clothespin”)
pionna gustúin (“gudgeon-pin”)
pionna iomartha (“thole-pin”)
pionna pubaill (“tent peg”)
pionna rotha (“linchpin”)
pionna srathrach (“straddle-pin”)
pionna tiúnta (“wrest-pin”)
pionnachlár (“pegboard; wrest block”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle English penne (“enclosure for animals”).

Noun

pionna m (genitive singular pionna, nominative plural pionnaí)

pen (for sheep)
Synonyms: cró, loca

Declension

Declension of pionna (fourth declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	pionna	pionnaí
vocative	a phionna	a phionnaí
genitive	pionna	pionnaí
dative	pionna	pionnaí

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an pionna	na pionnaí
genitive	an phionna	na bpionnaí
dative	leis an bpionna don phionna	leis na pionnaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of *pionna*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
pionna	phionna	bpionna

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