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tointe

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish tuinnte, verbal noun of do·sní.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tointe m (genitive singular tointe, nominative plural tointí or tointeacha)

  1. stitch (any least part of a fabric or dress)
    Synonym: luid
  2. a length of thread
  3. strand
    tointe gruaige ― a strand of hair

Declension

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Declension of tointe (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tointe tointí
vocative a thointe a thointí
genitive tointe tointí
dative tointe tointí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tointe na tointí
genitive an tointe na dtointí
dative leis an tointe
don tointe 		leis na tointí

Mutation

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Mutated forms of tointe
radical lenition eclipsis
tointe thointe dtointe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tuinnte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 91

Further reading

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