tóin
Icelandic
Noun
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tón (“anus”), from Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. Cognate with English thigh. Compare Scottish Gaelic tòin.
Pronunciation
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Noun
tóin f (genitive singular tóna, nominative plural tóineanna)
- buttocks
- arse, bum, ass, butt
- rear, back
- (nautical) aft, stern
- (architecture, of a building) basement, cellar
Declension
Declension of tóin
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Synonyms
Derived terms
- gnéas tóna (“anal sex”)
- níl aon tóin tinn mar do thóin tinn féin (“there’s no sore arse like your own sore arse”)
- póg mo thóin (“kiss my ass”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tóin | thóin | dtóin |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 393
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tóin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- ga:Nautical
- ga:Architecture
- Irish third-declension nouns
- ga:Anatomy