acaoineadh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish accaíned (“act of complaining; complaint, lamentation”).

Noun

acaoineadh m (genitive singular acaointe)

1. doleful crying
2. complaint, lamentation

Declension

Declension of acaoineadh

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative acaoineadh Vocative a acaoineadh Genitive acaointe Dative acaoineadh

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an t-acaoineadh Genitive an acaointe Dative leis an acaoineadh don acaoineadh

Related terms

• acaointeach (“plaintive, doleful”, adjective)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acaoineadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “accaíned”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language