snoí

Irish

Alternative forms

• snaoidhe, snoidhe, snoighe (obsolete)
• snas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˠn̪ˠiː/

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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative snoí Vocative a shnoí Genitive snoí Dative snoí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an snoí Genitive an tsnoí Dative leis an snoí don snoí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
snoí	shnoí after an, tsnoí	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “snoí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “snoiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 665
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “snoí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 87