teileafón

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English telephone.

NounEdit

teileafón m (genitive singular teileafóin, nominative plural teileafóin)

1. telephone

DeclensionEdit

Declension of teileafón

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative teileafón teileafóin Vocative a theileafóin a theileafóna Genitive teileafóin teileafón Dative teileafón teileafóin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an teileafón na teileafóin Genitive an teileafóin na dteileafón Dative leis an teileafón don teileafón leis na teileafóin

SynonymsEdit

• guthán

Derived termsEdit

• fón
• líne teileafóin f (“telephone line”)

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
teileafón	theileafón	dteileafón
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• "teileafón" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.