gairdín ainmhithe

Irish

Etymology

Literally ‘garden of animals’; compare German Tiergarten, Dutch diergaarde, etc.

Noun

gairdín ainmhithe m (genitive singular gairdín ainmhithe, nominative plural gairdíní ainmhithe)

1. zoo

   Synonym: zú

Mutation

Mutated forms of gairdín ainmhithe

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gairdín ainmhithe	ghairdín ainmhithe	ngairdín ainmhithe

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