Noun: glúin
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | glúin |
| Singular Genitive | glúine |
| Plural Nominative | glúnta; glúine |
| Plural Genitive | glúnta; glún |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an ghlúin |
| Singular Genitive | na glúine |
| Plural Nominative | na glúnta; na glúine |
| Plural Genitive | na nglúnta; na nglún |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like glúin
glúin,
Etymology
From Old Irish glún, from Proto-Celtic *glūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Breton glin (“knee”), Scottish Gaelic glùin and Welsh glin (“knee”), and further English knee, Latin genū (“knee”). See: English Nouns '
knee', Latin Nouns '
genū'.
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