gairdín ainmhithe

Irish

Etymology

Literally ‘garden of animals’; compare German Tiergarten, Dutch diergaarde, etc.

Noun

gairdín ainmhithe m (genitive singular gairdín ainmhithe, nominative plural gairdíní ainmhithe)

1. zoo

   Synonym: zú

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gairdín ainmhithe	ghairdín ainmhithe	ngairdín ainmhithe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gairdín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN