suaineas

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

suaineas m (genitive singular suainis)

  1. Munster form of suaimhneas (“tranquility”)
    • 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 198:
      « Seadh, a chéile chneasta », ar sise, « ó tánn tú agam-sa ag baile anois, agus sinn fé mhaise agus ár leanbhín, beidh síothchán agus suaineas againn go deireadh ár laethe ».
      “Yes, dear husband”, she said, “since I have you at home now, and since we are happy and our baby [is too], we will have peace and tranquility to the end of our days.”

Declension

Declension of suaineas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative suaineas
vocative a shuainis
genitive suainis
dative suaineas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an suaineas
genitive an tsuainis
dative leis an suaineas
don suaineas

Mutation

Mutated forms of suaineas
radical lenition eclipsis
suaineas shuaineas
after an, tsuaineas 		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. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 211, page 105
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