Irish
Etymology
From English tanhouse or its Middle English antecedent.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɤn̪ˠusˠ/
Noun
tonnús m (genitive singular tonnúis, nominative plural tonnúis)
- tanhouse, tannery (place where people tan hides to make leather)
Declension
Declension of tonnús (first declension)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of tonnús
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lenition
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eclipsis
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thonnús
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dtonnús
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- “tonnús”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tionús”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 736
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tonnús”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20