tinneas clainne

Irish

Alternative forms

teinneas cloinne (superseded)

Etymology

Literally, “child illness”; compare Scottish Gaelic tinneas-cloinne.

Noun

tinneas clainne m (genitive singular tinnis chlainne)

pangs of childbirth, labor pains

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tinneas clainne	thinneas clainne	dtinneas clainne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teinneas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 731
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tinneas clainne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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