tóin

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See also: toin, tòin, and töin

Icelandic

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Noun

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tóin

  1. definite nominative singular of tó

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish tón (“anus”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-.[2] Cognate with English thigh. Compare Scottish Gaelic tòin and Manx thoin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tóin f (genitive singular tóna, nominative plural tóineanna)

  1. buttocks
  2. arse, bum, ass, butt
  3. rear, back
  4. (nautical) aft, stern
  5. (architecture, of a building) basement, cellar

Declension

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Declension of tóin

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tóin tóineanna
Vocative a thóin a thóineanna
Genitive tóna tóineanna
Dative tóin tóineanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tóin na tóineanna
Genitive na tóna na dtóineanna
Dative leis an tóin

don tóin

leis na tóineanna

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tóin thóin dtóin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 393
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 93

Further reading

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