leanúint

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish lenamain.[2] By surface analysis, lean +‎ -úint.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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leanúint f (genitive singular leanúna)

  1. verbal noun of lean

Declension

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Declension of leanúint (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative leanúint
vocative a leanúint
genitive leanúna
dative leanúint
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an leanúint
genitive na leanúna
dative leis an leanúint
don leanúint

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “leanṁain”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 426
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lenamain, lenmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 21