cuisneoir

Irish

Etymology

From cuisne (“frost, cold haze”) +‎ -óir.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kəʃˈnʲoːɾʲ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪʃnʲoːɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪʃnʲɔɾʲ/

Noun

cuisneoir m (genitive singular cuisneora, nominative plural cuisneoirí)

1. refrigerator

Declension

Declension of cuisneoir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cuisneoir cuisneoirí vocative a chuisneoir a chuisneoirí genitive cuisneora cuisneoirí dative cuisneoir cuisneoirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cuisneoir na cuisneoirí genitive an chuisneora na gcuisneoirí dative leis an gcuisneoir don chuisneoir leis na cuisneoirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuisneoir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuisneoir	chuisneoir	gcuisneoir

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