Ianasóir

Irish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ottoman Turkish یڭیچری (yeniçeri) (Turkish yeniçeri), from یڭی (yeni, “modern, new”) + چری (çeri, “army”), through an intermediate form in a European language such as French janissaire, Italian giannizzero, ianizzero, Latin Ianizari, Ienizari, Portuguese janizaro, or Spanish genizaro. Compare Dutch janitsaar, German Janitschar.

Noun

Ianasóir m (genitive singular Ianasóra, nominative plural Ianasóirí)

1. (historical) janissary

Declension

Declension of Ianasóir (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative Ianasóir Ianasóirí vocative a Ianasóir a Ianasóirí genitive Ianasóra Ianasóirí dative Ianasóir Ianasóirí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an tIanasóir na hIanasóirí genitive an Ianasóra na nIanasóirí dative leis an Ianasóir don Ianasóir leis na hIanasóirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of Ianasóir

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Ianasóir	nIanasóir	hIanasóir	tIanasóir

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) “Ianasóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN