guingeám

Irish

Alternative forms

• guingeán

Etymology

Borrowed from English gingham, from Malay genggang.

Noun

guingeám m (genitive singular guingeáim)

1. gingham

Declension

Declension of guingeám

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative guingeám Vocative a ghuingeáim Genitive guingeáim Dative guingeám

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an guingeám Genitive an ghuingeáim Dative leis an nguingeám don ghuingeám

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
guingeám	ghuingeám	nguingeám
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “gingham”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024