pionna

French

Verb

pionna

1. third-person singular past historic of pionner

Irish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English pinne.

Noun

pionna m (genitive singular pionna, nominative plural pionnaí)

1. pin, peg

   Synonyms: bacán, maide, tairne

2. nail

   Synonym: tairne

3. (nautical) coak
4. (sports, in the plural) ninepins, skittles

Derived terms

• pionna acastóra (“axle-pin”)
• pionna buailte (“percussion-pin”)
• pionna crangaide (“wrist-pin”)
• pionna éadaigh (“clothes peg, clothespin”)
• pionna gustúin (“gudgeon-pin”)
• pionna iomartha (“thole-pin”)
• pionna pubaill (“tent peg”)
• pionna rotha (“linchpin”)
• pionna srathrach (“straddle-pin”)
• pionna tiúnta (“wrest-pin”)
• pionnachlár (“pegboard; wrest block”)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle English penne (“enclosure for animals”).

Noun

pionna m (genitive singular pionna, nominative plural pionnaí)

1. pen (for sheep)

   Synonyms: cró, loca

Declension

Declension of pionna

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative pionna pionnaí Vocative a phionna a phionnaí Genitive pionna pionnaí Dative pionna pionnaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an pionna na pionnaí Genitive an phionna na bpionnaí Dative leis an bpionna don phionna leis na pionnaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pionna	phionna	bpionna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.