sleamhain

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish slemon,[1] from Proto-Celtic *slimnos, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smear”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic sleamhainn, Manx shliawin, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), Old Breton limn, English slip.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sleamhain (genitive singular feminine sleamhaine, plural sleamhna, comparative sleamhaine)

  1. slippery

Declension
Declension of sleamhain
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative sleamhain shleamhain sleamhna;
shleamhna²
Vocative shleamhain sleamhna
Genitive sleamhaine sleamhna sleamhain
Dative sleamhain;
shleamhain¹		 shleamhain sleamhna;
shleamhna²
Comparative níos sleamhaine
Superlative is sleamhaine

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

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

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “slemon, slemain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 19

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