leanúint
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- leanacht (Cois Fharraige)
- leanamhain, leanamhaint, leanmhain, leanmhaint (superseded)[1]
- leanamhuin, leanamhuint, leanmhuin, leanmhuint, lenmain, lenmhain (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish lenamain.[2] By surface analysis, lean + -úint.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leanúint f (genitive singular leanúna)
- verbal noun of lean
Declension
[edit]Declension of leanúint
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Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “leanṁain”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 426
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lenamain, lenmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 21
