acaoineadh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish accaíned (“act of complaining; complaint, lamentation”).

Noun

acaoineadh m (genitive singular acaointe)

1. doleful crying
2. complaint, lamentation

Declension

Declension of acaoineadh (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative acaoineadh vocative a acaoineadh genitive acaointe dative acaoineadh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-acaoineadh genitive an acaointe dative leis an acaoineadh don acaoineadh

Related terms

• acaointeach (“plaintive, doleful”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of acaoineadh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acaoineadh	n-acaoineadh	hacaoineadh	t-acaoineadh

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acaoineadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accaíned”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language