puinn
Irish
Alternative forms
- poinn, punt
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /pˠiːnʲ/
Pronoun
puinn
- (chiefly in the negative) a bit, much/many (followed by the genitive)
- Níl puinn céille aige.
- He hasn’t much sense.
- An bhfuil puinn airgid agat?
- Do you have much money?
- (literary, poetic) much, many (in positive affirmative sentences)
- chómh gasta le puinn den dáimh ― as clever as many of the bards
- céadar ar cuireadh puinn san áirc de ― the cedar of which much of the Ark was made
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| puinn | phuinn | bpuinn |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “puinn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “poind, poinn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “puinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 554
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “puinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71
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