snua

See also: snúa

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish snúad.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠn̪ˠuːə/, /sˠn̪ˠuː/[3]

Noun

snua m (genitive singular snua, nominative plural snuanna)

  1. color, hue (of a person's face)
  2. complexion
  3. appearance

Declension

Declension of snua (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative snua snuanna
vocative a shnua a shnuanna
genitive snua snuanna
dative snua snuanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an snua na snuanna
genitive an tsnua na snuanna
dative leis an snua
don snua 		leis na snuanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of snua
radical lenition eclipsis
snua shnua
after an, tsnua 		not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “snua”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 snúad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 239, page 87

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