deimhin

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish demin (“sure, certain, undoubted”) (compare Scottish Gaelic deimhinn).

Pronunciation

Adjective

deimhin (genitive singular masculine deimhin, genitive singular feminine deimhne, plural deimhne, comparative deimhne)

  1. sure, certain

Declension
Declension of deimhin
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative deimhin dheimhin deimhne;
dheimhne²
Vocative dheimhin deimhne
Genitive deimhne deimhne deimhin
Dative deimhin;
dheimhin¹		 dheimhin deimhne;
dheimhne²
Comparative níos deimhne
Superlative is deimhne

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

Synonyms

Noun

deimhin f (genitive singular deimhne)

  1. certainty; assurance, proof

Declension
Declension of deimhin

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative deimhin
Vocative a dheimhin
Genitive deimhne
Dative deimhin

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an deimhin
Genitive na deimhne
Dative leis an deimhin

don deimhin

Synonyms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deimhin dheimhin ndeimhin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 26

Further reading
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