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cinniúint

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cinnemain, verbal noun of cinnid (“to fix, settle”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cinniúint f (genitive singular cinnúna)

  1. fate, destiny, fortune
  2. lot (part or fate that befalls one), portion
  3. fatality (that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal)
  4. tragedy (disastrous event)

Declension

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Declension of cinniúint

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative cinniúint
Vocative a chinniúint
Genitive cinniúna
Dative cinniúint

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an chinniúint
Genitive na cinniúna
Dative leis an gcinniúint

don chinniúint

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  • cinn (“determine”, verb)

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cinniúint chinniúint gcinniúint
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “cinniúint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cinnemain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 84

Further reading

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