canúnachas

Irish

Etymology

From canúnach +‎ -as.

Noun

canúnachas m (genitive singular canúnachais, nominative plural canúnachais)

1. fondness for dialect
2. dialectal trait
3. vernacularism

Declension

Declension of canúnachas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative canúnachas canúnachais vocative a chanúnachais a chanúnachasa genitive canúnachais canúnachas dative canúnachas canúnachais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an canúnachas na canúnachais genitive an chanúnachais na gcanúnachas dative leis an gcanúnachas don chanúnachas leis na canúnachais

Mutation

Mutated forms of canúnachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
canúnachas	chanúnachas	gcanúnachas

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) “canúnachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN