From Old Irish lenamain.[2] By surface analysis, lean + -úint.
leanúint f (genitive singular leanúna)
- verbal noun of lean
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “leanṁain”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 426
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lenamain, lenmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 21
