FromOld Irishadnúa(“very new, very fresh”), fromad- +núa.
adhnua m (genitive singularadhnua)
- novelty
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^Ó Cuív, Brian (1968),The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,→ISBN, page27; reprinted1988
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “adhnua”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adnúa”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
