péine

See also: peine, Peine, peiné, and -péine

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲeːnʲə/

Etymology 1

From Latin pīnus.

Alternative forms

• pín

Noun

péine m (genitive singular péine)

1. pine (tree of the genus Pinus; pinewood)

Declension

Declension of péine

Fourth declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an péine Genitive an phéine Dative leis an bpéine don phéine

Synonyms

• (tree): crann péine (used when the word needs to be countable)

Derived terms

• caor phéine (“pinecone”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of pian.

Noun

péine f

1. genitive singular of pian

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
péine	phéine	bpéine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “péine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN