puinn

Irish

Alternative forms

• poinn, punt

Etymology

Alternative form (and former spelling) of poinn (“profit, avail”), from Latin pondus.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pˠiːnʲ/

Pronoun

puinn

1. (chiefly in the negative) a bit, much/many (followed by the genitive)

   Níl puinn céille aige.

   He hasn’t much sense.

   An bhfuil puinn airgid agat?

   Do you have much money?

2. (literary, poetic) much, many (in positive affirmative sentences)

   chómh gasta le puinn den dáimh ― as clever as many of the bards

   céadar ar cuireadh puinn san áirc de ― the cedar of which much of the Ark was made

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
puinn	phuinn	bpuinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “puinn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “poind, poinn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “puinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 554
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “puinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71