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Irish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]teinn (genitive singular feminine teinne, plural teinne, comparative teinne)
Declension
[edit]Declension of teinn
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | teinn | theinn | teinne; theinne² | |
| Vocative | theinn | teinne | ||
| Genitive | teinne | teinne | teinn | |
| Dative | teinn; theinn¹ |
theinn | teinne; theinne² | |
| Comparative | níos teinne | |||
| Superlative | is teinne | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Adjective
[edit]teinn
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| teinn | theinn | dteinn |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *tainaz. Cognate with Old English tān. For the divination aspect see Old English tānhlyta.
Noun
[edit]teinn m (genitive teins, plural teinar)
- twig, branch
- Hymiskviða, st. 1/3–4
- hristu teina · ok á hlaut sǫ́u
fundu at Ægis · ørkost hvera.- they shook the twigs and looked at the divination;
they found [out through the divination that] at Ægir’s home [there was] an immense choice of cauldrons.
- they shook the twigs and looked at the divination;
- Hymiskviða, st. 1/3–4
- sprout
Declension
[edit] Declension of teinn (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]Categories:
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish superseded forms
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish adjective forms
- Irish archaic terms
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse masculine nouns
- Old Norse terms with quotations
- Old Norse masculine a-stem nouns