adhnáire

Irish

Alternative forms

adhnáireacht, aghaidhnáire, aghnáire

Etymology

From Old Irish adnáire f (“great shame”), from ad- + náire f (“shamefacedness, bashfulness, diffidence, backwardness or reluctance; modesty, sense of decorum, nobility of behaviour, generosity”).

Noun

adhnáire f (genitive singular adhnáire)

Declension

Declension of adhnáire

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	adhnáire
Vocative	a adhnáire
Genitive	adhnáire
Dative	adhnáire

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an adhnáire
Genitive	na hadhnáire
Dative	leis an adhnáire don adhnáire

Derived terms

adhnáireach (“shameful; modest”, adjective)
adhnáirigh (“shame, disgrace; cause to blush”, transitive verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhnáire	n-adhnáire	hadhnáire	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhnáire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adnáire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhnáire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm