Guatamala

Irish

Etymology

From Spanish Guatemala, from Nahuatl cuauhtēmallān (“place of many trees”).

Proper noun

Guatamala m (genitive Ghuatamala)

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Guatamala (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Guatamala vocative a Ghuatamala genitive Guatamala dative Guatamala forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Guatamala genitive an Ghuatamala dative leis an nGuatamala don Ghuatamala

Derived terms

• Guatamalach (“Guatemalan”, adjective)
• Guatamalach m (“Guatemalan”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of Guatamala

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Guatamala	Ghuatamala	nGuatamala

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

Further reading

• “Guatemala”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Guatamala”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Guatemala at Focal.ie, Foras na Gaeilge (2013).