spíon

See also: spion, Spion, and špión

Irish

Alternative forms

  • spíol

Etymology

From Middle Irish spín, from Latin spīna,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *spey-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠpʲiːn̪ˠ/, /sˠpʲiːnˠ/

Noun

spíon f (genitive singular spíne, nominative plural spíonta)

  1. spine, thorn
  2. (collective) thorns
  3. thorny shrub or tree

Declension

Declension of spíon (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative spíon spíonta
vocative a spíon a spíonta
genitive spíne spíonta
dative spíon
spín (archaic, dialectal)
spíonta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an spíon na spíonta
genitive na spíne na spíonta
dative leis an spíon
leis an spín (archaic, dialectal)
don spíon
don spín (archaic, dialectal)
leis na spíonta

Derived terms

Verb

spíon (present analytic spíonann, future analytic spíonfaidh, verbal noun spíonadh, past participle spíonta) (ambitransitive)

  1. tease, comb; pull apart
  2. comb, search, ransack
  3. spend, exhaust

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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