oirnimint

Irish

Alternative forms

• airlimint
• airnimint

Etymology

From Old French ornement, from Latin ornāmentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornō (“I equip, adorn”).

Noun

oirnimint f (genitive singular oirniminte, nominative plural oirnimintí)

1. ornament

Declension

Declension of oirnimint (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative oirnimint oirnimintí vocative a oirnimint a oirnimintí genitive oirniminte oirnimintí dative oirnimint oirnimintí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an oirnimint na hoirnimintí genitive na hoirniminte na n-oirnimintí dative leis an oirnimint don oirnimint leis na hoirnimintí

Mutation

Mutated forms of oirnimint

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oirnimint	n-oirnimint	hoirnimint	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) “oirnimint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN