geoin

Irish

Alternative forms

  • géan, giúin
  • geóin (obsolete)[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

geoin f (genitive singular geoine)

  1. whimper
  2. uproar (confused noise), cry (clamor, outcry)
  3. hum (indistinct sound resembling human humming)
  4. fool (object of ridicule)
    Rinne siad geoin díom.
    They made a fool of me.

Declension

Declension of geoin (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative geoin
vocative a gheoin
genitive geoine
dative geoin
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an gheoin
genitive na geoine
dative leis an ngeoin
don gheoin

Derived terms

  • geonaíl

Mutation

Mutated forms of geoin
radical lenition eclipsis
geoin gheoin ngeoin

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

References

  1. ^ “geoin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 45, page 24

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