giniúint

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish genemain f (“coming into existence, birth; generative power; growth, production; race, progeny”), verbal noun of gainithir (modern gin).

Noun

giniúint f (genitive singular giniúna, nominative plural giniúintí)

1. verbal noun of gin
2. procreation; conception; birth
3. 1. (biology) reproduction, generation
   2. (botany) germination
   3. generation, production
4. 1. embryo
   2. embryonic growth, sprout
5. (literary) progeny, breed

Declension

Declension of giniúint

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative giniúint giniúintí Vocative a ghiniúint a ghiniúintí Genitive giniúna giniúintí Dative giniúint giniúintí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an ghiniúint na giniúintí Genitive na giniúna na nginiúintí Dative leis an nginiúint don ghiniúint leis na giniúintí

Derived terms

• baill ghiniúna m pl (“reproductive organs, genitals”)
• giniúint Ádhaimh f (“Adam's seed”)
• Giniúint Chríost f (“Christ's Nativity”)
• giniúint i bpráta f (“sprouting, sprout, in potato”)
• Giniúint Mhuire gan Smál f (“the Immaculate Conception”)
• giniúint síl f (“germination of seed”)
• giniúnach (“generative”)
• stáisiún giniúna f (“generating station, power station”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
giniúint	ghiniúint	nginiúint
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "giniúint" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “genemain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language