adhnua

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhnó m

Etymology

From Old Irish adnúa (“very new, very fresh”), from ad- +‎ núa.

Pronunciation

• (Cork) IPA^(key): /əiˈn̪ˠoː/

Noun

adhnua m (genitive singular adhnua)

1. novelty

Declension

Declension of adhnua (fourth declension, no plural)

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhnua

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhnua	n-adhnua	hadhnua	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) “adhnua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adnúa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language