snoí

Irish

Alternative forms

  • snaoidhe, snoidhe, snoighe (obsolete)[1]
  • snas

Etymology

From Middle Irish snaide,[2] verbal noun of snaidid, from Proto-Celtic *snadeti (“to hew, carve”) (compare Welsh naddu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠn̪ˠiː/[3]

Noun

snoí m (genitive singular as substantive snoí, genitive as verbal noun snoite)

  1. verbal noun of snoigh (“to hew, carve; to wear away”)
  2. emaciation

Declension

Declension of snoí (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative snoí
vocative a shnoí
genitive snoí
dative snoí
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an snoí
genitive an tsnoí
dative leis an snoí
don snoí

Mutation

Mutated forms of snoí
radical lenition eclipsis
snoí shnoí
after an, tsnoí 		not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “snoí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 239, page 87

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