snua

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See also: snúa

Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish snúad.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

snua m (genitive singular snua, nominative plural snuanna)

  1. color, hue (of a person's face)
  2. complexion
  3. appearance

Declension[edit]

Declension of snua

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative snua snuanna
Vocative a shnua a shnuanna
Genitive snua snuanna
Dative snua snuanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an snua na snuanna
Genitive an tsnua na snuanna
Dative leis an snua

don snua

leis na snuanna

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

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