canúnachas

Irish

Etymology

From canúnach +‎ -as.

Noun

canúnachas m (genitive singular canúnachais, nominative plural canúnachais)

1. fondness for dialect
2. dialectal trait
3. vernacularism

Declension

Declension of canúnachas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative canúnachas canúnachais Vocative a chanúnachais a chanúnachasa Genitive canúnachais canúnachas Dative canúnachas canúnachais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an canúnachas na canúnachais Genitive an chanúnachais na gcanúnachas Dative leis an gcanúnachas don chanúnachas leis na canúnachais

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
canúnachas	chanúnachas	gcanúnachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “canúnachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN