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cinniúint

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cinnemain, verbal noun of cinnid (“to fix, settle”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cinniúint f (genitive singular cinnúna)

  1. fate, destiny, fortune
  2. lot (part or fate that befalls one), portion
  3. fatality (that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal)
  4. tragedy (disastrous event)

Declension

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Declension of cinniúint (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cinniúint
vocative a chinniúint
genitive cinniúna
dative cinniúint
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chinniúint
genitive na cinniúna
dative leis an gcinniúint
don chinniúint
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  • cinn (“determine”, verb)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cinniúint
radical lenition eclipsis
cinniúint chinniúint gcinniúint

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

References

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  1. ^ “cinniúint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cinnemain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 84

Further reading

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