cleamhnaí
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From cleamhnach (“having connections by marriage”) + -aí.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cleamhnaí m (genitive singular cleamhnaí, nominative plural cleamhnaithe)
- relative by marriage, in-law
- (Ulster) son-in-law
Declension edit
Declension of cleamhnaí
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Related terms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cleamhnaí | chleamhnaí | gcleamhnaí |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- “cleamhnaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cleaṁain”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cleamhnaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57