Noun: gin
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | gin |
| Singular Genitive | gine |
| Plural Nominative | ginte |
| Plural Genitive | ginte |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an ghin |
| Singular Genitive | na gine |
| Plural Nominative | na ginte |
| Plural Genitive | na nginte |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like gin
athghin,
breac-choill,
camlinn,
caschoill,
cnóchoill,
collchoill,
céadghin,
drischoill,
drúchtlinn,
forbhroinn,
fuarlinn,
fíorghin,
gin,
leathaill,
marbhghin,
mín,
roschoill,
splín,
sruthlinn,
úllsclóin, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Irish gein, verbal noun of gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)). See: English Nouns '
kin', Latin Nouns '
gignō'.
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