tinneas clainne

Irish

Alternative forms

• teinneas cloinne (superseded)

Etymology

Literally, “child illness”; compare Scottish Gaelic tinneas-cloinne.

Noun

tinneas clainne m (genitive singular tinnis chlainne)

1. pangs of childbirth, labor pains

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tinneas clainne	thinneas clainne	dtinneas clainne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teinneas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 731
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tinneas clainne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN