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snua

See also: snúa

Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish snúad.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

snua m (genitive singular snua, nominative plural snuanna)

  1. color, hue (of a person's face)
  2. complexion
  3. appearance

Declension edit

Declension of snua

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative snua snuanna
Vocative a shnua a shnuanna
Genitive snua snuanna
Dative snua snuanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an snua na snuanna
Genitive an tsnua na snuanna
Dative leis an snua

don snua

leis na snuanna

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
snua shnua
after an, tsnua 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ “snua”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 snúad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 87

Further reading edit

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