meaisínghunna

Irish

Etymology

From meaisín (“machine”) +‎ gunna (“gun”), calque of English machine gun.

Noun

meaisínghunna m (genitive singular meaisínghunna, nominative plural meaisínghunnaí)

1. machine gun

Declension

Declension of meaisínghunna (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative meaisínghunna meaisínghunnaí vocative a mheaisínghunna a mheaisínghunnaí genitive meaisínghunna meaisínghunnaí dative meaisínghunna meaisínghunnaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an meaisínghunna na meaisínghunnaí genitive an mheaisínghunna na meaisínghunnaí dative leis an meaisínghunna don mheaisínghunna leis na meaisínghunnaí

Derived terms

• fo-mheaisínghunna m (“submachine gun”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of meaisínghunna

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meaisínghunna	mheaisínghunna	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meaisínghunna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN