eithne

See also: Eithne

Irish

From Middle Irish eitne,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ét(e)no- (“kernel”), see also Old Armenian ունդ (und, “grain, seed”), Ancient Greek ἔτνος (étnos, “soup with beans”).^[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eitean (“kernel, seed”).

eithne f (genitive singular eithne, nominative plural eithní)

Declension of eithne (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an eithne	na heithní
genitive	na heithne	na n-eithní
dative	leis an eithne don eithne	leis na heithní

Mutated forms of *eithne*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eithne	n-eithne	heithne	not applicable

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 166
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 442, page 142