tonnús

Irish

Alternative forms

• teanús, tionús

Etymology

From English tanhouse or its Middle English antecedent.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɤn̪ˠusˠ/

Noun

tonnús m (genitive singular tonnúis, nominative plural tonnúis)

1. tanhouse, tannery (place where people tan hides to make leather)

Declension

Declension of tonnús (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tonnús tonnúis vocative a thonnúis a thonnúsa genitive tonnúis tonnús dative tonnús tonnúis forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tonnús na tonnúis genitive an tonnúis na dtonnús dative leis an tonnús don tonnús leis na tonnúis

Mutation

Mutated forms of tonnús

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tonnús	thonnús	dtonnús

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

Further reading

• “tonnús”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tionús”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 736
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tonnús”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20