adhnáire

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhnáireacht, aghaidhnáire, aghnáire

Etymology

From Old Irish adnáire f (“great shame”), from ad- + náire f (“shamefacedness, bashfulness, diffidence, backwardness or reluctance; modesty, sense of decorum, nobility of behaviour, generosity”).

Noun

adhnáire f (genitive singular adhnáire)

1. shame
2. modesty

Declension

Declension of adhnáire (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative adhnáire vocative a adhnáire genitive adhnáire dative adhnáire forms with the definite article case singular nominative an adhnáire genitive na hadhnáire dative leis an adhnáire don adhnáire

Derived terms

• adhnáireach (“shameful; modest”, adjective)
• adhnáirigh (“shame, disgrace; cause to blush”, transitive verb)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhnáire

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhnáire	n-adhnáire	hadhnáire	not applicable

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) “adhnáire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adnáire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhnáire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm