éis

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eis"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish éis (“track, trace”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸanssā, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːʃ/

Noun

éis

1. only used in certain phrases; see derived terms

Derived terms

• ar éis
• d'éis
• dar éis
• in éis
• tar éis
• thar éis

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éis	n-éis	héis	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• héis

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸanssā, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːsʲ/

Noun

éis f

1. track, trace

Declension

The word is not well enough attested outside of the prepositional phrases listed under Derived terms below to allow a declension class to be stated with certainty. The dative singular appears as both éis and éisi, suggesting a fluctuation between ā-stem and ī-stem declension.

Derived terms

• dar éis(i)
• di éis(i)
• do éis
• tar éis(i)

 

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
éis (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-éis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 éis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language