dunnart

English

A slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Nyunga danard (“Sminthopsis griseoventer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌnə(ɹ)t/

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Noun

dunnart (plural dunnarts)

1. Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
   • 2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158:

     After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.

   • 2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:

     During the original AWC survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.

   • 2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7:

     Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.

Derived terms

• Butler's dunnart
• chestnut dunnart
• common dunnart
• fat-tailed dunnart
• Gilbert's dunnart
• greater hairy-footed dunnart
• grey-bellied dunnart
• Julia Creek dunnart
• Kakadu dunnart
• large long-tailed dunnart
• lesser hairy-footed dunnart
• little long-tailed dunnart
• Ooldea dunnart
• red-cheeked dunnart
• sandhill dunnart
• stripe-faced dunnart
• white-footed dunnart
• white-tailed dunnart

 

Translations

marsupial of the genus Sminthopsis

• Czech: vakomyš f
• Finnish: pussihiiri
• Hungarian: erszényescickány
• Polish: grubogonik m

See also

• marsupial mouse

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dunnart, from Nyunga danard (“probably Sminthopsis griseoventer”).

Noun

dunnart m (genitive singular dunnairt, nominative plural dunnairt)

1. dunnart

Declension

Declension of dunnart

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative dunnart dunnairt Vocative a dhunnairt a dhunnarta Genitive dunnairt dunnart Dative dunnart dunnairt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an dunnart na dunnairt Genitive an dunnairt na ndunnart Dative leis an dunnart don dunnart leis na dunnairt

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dunnart	dhunnart	ndunnart
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.