rainnt

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

rainnt f (genitive singular rainnte, nominative plural rannta)

  1. Munster form of roinnt (“some”)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Do thug sí rainnt airgid don mbuachaill is as go bráth leis.
      She gave the boy some money and off he went.

Declension

Declension of rainnt (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative rainnt rannta
vocative a rainnt a rannta
genitive rainnte rannta
dative rainnt rannta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an rainnt na rannta
genitive na rainnte na rannta
dative leis an rainnt
don rainnt 		leis na rannta

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
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