spíon
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish spín, from Latin spīna, from Proto-Indo-European *spey-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]spíon f (genitive singular spíne, nominative plural spíonta)
- spine, thorn
- (collective) thorns
- thorny shrub or tree
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- Coróin Spíne
- spíonán
- spíon Chríost (“Christ's-thorn”)
Verb
[edit]spíon (present analytic spíonann, future analytic spíonfaidh, verbal noun spíonadh, past participle spíonta) (transitive, intransitive)
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of spíon (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spíon”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “spíon”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “spíon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *spey-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Latin
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish collective nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish transitive verbs
- Irish intransitive verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class A