mionchaint

Irish

Etymology

From mion- +‎ caint.

Noun

mionchaint f (genitive singular mionchainte)

  1. small talk, tittle-tattle
    • 2012 October, Pádraig G. Ó Laighin, “Is Mithid dom féin…”, in Feasta‎[1], archived from the original on 20 November 2017:
      A comhphaisinéirí a bhí ag mionchaint i dtosach an turais, tháinig marbhántacht orthu.
      Her fellow passengers, who had been making small talk at the start of the journey, became listless.

Declension

Declension of mionchaint (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative mionchaint
vocative a mhionchaint
genitive mionchainte
dative mionchaint
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mhionchaint
genitive na mionchainte
dative leis an mionchaint
don mhionchaint

Mutation

Mutated forms of mionchaint
radical lenition eclipsis
mionchaint mhionchaint not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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