Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish abstanit f (“abstinence”), from Latin abstinentia.
Noun
abstanaid f (genitive singular abstanaide)
- (literary) abstinence
- Synonym: abstaine
Declension
Declension of abstanaid (second declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of abstanaid
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| abstanaid
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n-abstanaid
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habstanaid
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “abstanaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “abstanait”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language