ionúin

Irish

Alternative forms

• ionmhain (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish inmain (“dear, beloved”).

Adjective

ionúin (genitive singular feminine ionúine, plural ionúine, comparative ionúine)

1. dear, beloved, precious

Declension

Declension of ionúin

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ionúin	ionúin	ionúine; ionúine²
Vocative	ionúin		ionúine
Genitive		ionúine	ionúine	ionúin
Dative	ionúin; ionúin¹	ionúin	ionúine; ionúine²
Comparative	níos ionúine
Superlative	is ionúine

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• ionúineach (“loving”, adjective)
• más ionúin an chráin is ionúin an t-ál (“love me, love my dog”)

Related terms

• ionúine f (“dearness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ionúin	n-ionúin	hionúin	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) “ionúin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “head-inmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language