ionúin

Irish

Alternative forms

• ionmhain (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish inmain (“dear, beloved”).

Adjective

ionúin (genitive singular feminine ionúine, plural ionúine, comparative ionúine)

1. dear, beloved, precious

Declension

Declension of ionúin

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	ionúin	ionúin	ionúine; ionúine2
vocative	ionúin		ionúine
genitive		ionúine	ionúine	ionúin
dative	ionúin; ionúin1	ionúin	ionúine; ionúine2
Comparative	níos ionúine
Superlative	is ionúine

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• ionúineach (“loving”, adjective)
• más ionúin an chráin is ionúin an t-ál (“love me, love my dog”)

Related terms

• ionúine f (“dearness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ionúin

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ionúin	n-ionúin	hionúin	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ionúin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “head-inmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language