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sleamhnaigh

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish slemnaigid.[2] By surface analysis, sleamhain +‎ -aigh.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sleamhnaigh (present analytic sleamhnaíonn, future analytic sleamhnóidh, verbal noun sleamhnú, past participle sleamhnaithe)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to slip, slide

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of sleamhnaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
sleamhnaigh shleamhnaigh
after an, tsleamhnaigh
not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ sleamhnaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slemnaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 50

Further reading

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