tointe
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish tuinnte, verbal noun of do·sní.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tointe m (genitive singular tointe, nominative plural tointí or tointeacha)
- stitch (any least part of a fabric or dress)
- Synonym: luid
- a length of thread
- strand
- tointe gruaige ― a strand of hair
Declension
[edit]Declension of tointe
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tointe | thointe | dtointe |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tuinnte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 91
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “taoinnte”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 718
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tointe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)neh₁-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish terms with collocations
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
- ga:Sewing