easca
See also: éasca
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
- easc f
Etymology edit
From Old Irish esca (“bog, quagmire; depression, puddle”), probably from esc (“water”) (compare uisce).
Noun edit
easca f (genitive singular easca, nominative plural eascaí)
Declension edit
Declension of easca
Derived terms edit
- eascach (“wet, swampy; sunken, sagged”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
easca | n-easca | heasca | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “easca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “esca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language