adhnáire
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish adnáire f (“great shame”), from ad- + náire f (“shamefacedness, bashfulness, diffidence, backwardness or reluctance; modesty, sense of decorum, nobility of behaviour, generosity”).
Noun
[edit]adhnáire f (genitive singular adhnáire)
Declension
[edit]Declension of adhnáire
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- adhnáireach (“shameful; modest”, adjective)
- adhnáirigh (“shame, disgrace; cause to blush”, transitive verb)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
adhnáire | n-adhnáire | hadhnáire | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhnáire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adnáire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhnáire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm