píbín

Irish

Etymology

From píb +‎ -ín (diminutive suffix).

Noun

píbín m (genitive singular píbín, nominative plural píbíní)

diminutive of píb (“pipe; windpipe; throat, neck”)

Declension

Declension of píbín

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	píbín	píbíní
Vocative	a phíbín	a phíbíní
Genitive	píbín	píbíní
Dative	píbín	píbíní

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an píbín	na píbíní
Genitive	an phíbín	na bpíbíní
Dative	leis an bpíbín don phíbín	leis na píbíní

Derived terms

píbín uisce (“pipewort”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
píbín	phíbín	bpíbín
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"píbín" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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