meatonaime

Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

Noun

meatonaime f (genitive singular meatonaime, nominative plural meatonaimí)

1. metonymy

Declension

Declension of meatonaime (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative meatonaime meatonaimí vocative a mheatonaime a mheatonaimí genitive meatonaime meatonaimí dative meatonaime meatonaimí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an mheatonaime na meatonaimí genitive na meatonaime na meatonaimí dative leis an meatonaime don mheatonaime leis na meatonaimí

Derived terms

• meatonaimeach (“metonymic, metonymical”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of meatonaime

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meatonaime	mheatonaime	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) “meatonaime”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN