Guine

See also: Guiné, guiñe, and guiñé

Irish

Proper noun

An Ghuine f (genitive na Guine)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

   Synonym: Poblacht na Guine

Declension

Declension of Guine (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Guine vocative a Ghuine genitive Guine dative Guine forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Ghuine genitive na Guine dative leis an nGuine don Ghuine

Derived terms

• cearc ghuine (“guinea-hen”)
• coileach guine (“guinea-cock”)
• Guine Mheánchiorclach, Guine Mheánchriosach (“Equatorial Guinea”)
• Guineach (“Guinean”, adjective)
• Guineach (“Guinean”, noun)
• muc ghuine (“guinea pig”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of Guine

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Guine	Ghuine	nGuine

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Guine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Guine”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “an Ghuine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024