cíoná

Irish

Alternative forms

• cianóg, cíonaí, cíonán, cíonáth

Etymology

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Noun

cíoná m (genitive singular cíoná)

1. (card games) five of trumps (at game of twenty-five, etc.)
2. chief, champion; star

Declension

Declension of cíoná (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cíoná vocative a chíoná genitive cíoná dative cíoná forms with the definite article case singular nominative an cíoná genitive an chíoná dative leis an gcíoná don chíoná

Derived terms

• an cíoná a tharraingt as cúl do ghlaice (“pull a rabbit out of a hat”)
• cíoná na cuideachta (“star turn”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cíoná

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cíoná	chíoná	gcíoná

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) “cíoná”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cíoná”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cíoná”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025