abstanaid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish abstanit f (“abstinence”), from Latin abstinentia.

Noun

abstanaid f (genitive singular abstanaide)

1. (literary) abstinence

   Synonym: abstaine

Declension

Declension of abstanaid

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative abstanaid Vocative a abstanaid Genitive abstanaide Dative abstanaid

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an abstanaid Genitive na habstanaide Dative leis an abstanaid don abstanaid

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “abstanaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “abstanait”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language