airne

Irish

airní

Alternative forms

• áirne (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish áirne, from Proto-Celtic *agrinyos, compare Welsh eirin, from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”), compare Proto-Germanic *akraną (“acorn”) and Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ (“berry”), and the loanwords in Romance Catalan aranyó (“sloe”), Aragonese and Spanish arañón (“sloe”), and Occitan agreno, aranhon, aragnou, agragnou (“sloe”), and in Basque arantzabeltz, patxaran, basaran / basakaran / basokaran (“sloe”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɾˠn̠ʲə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæːɾˠn̠ʲə/

Noun

airne f or m (genitive singular airne, nominative plural airní)

1. sloe (fruit of Prunus spinosa)
2. gland

Declension

Declension of airne

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative airne airní Vocative a airne a airní Genitive airne airní Dative airne airní

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an airne na hairní Genitive na hairne na n-airní Dative leis an airne don airne leis na hairní

Alternative declension

Declension of airne

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative airne airní Vocative a airne a airní Genitive airne airní Dative airne airní

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-airne na hairní Genitive an airne na n-airní Dative leis an airne don airne leis na hairní

Derived terms

• airneog f (“sloe tree, blackthorn”)
• biotáille airní f (“sloe gin”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airne	n-airne	hairne	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áirne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Template:R:ga:Dinneen
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19