See also: åsna

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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asna f (genitive singular ösnu, nominative plural ösnur)

  1. female donkey

Declension

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Irish

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Noun

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asna f (genitive singular asna, nominative plural asnacha)

  1. Alternative form of easna (rib)

Declension

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Mutation

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

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Latvian

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Noun

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asna m

  1. genitive singular of asns

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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asna f (genitive ǫsnu, plural ǫsnur)

  1. a she-ass, female donkey

Declension

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Hypernyms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: asna

References

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  • asna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin asina, feminine of asinus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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asna f (plural asnas)

  1. female equivalent of asno; a she-ass, a female donkey

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese asna, from Latin asina, feminine of asinus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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asna f (plural asnas)

  1. female equivalent of asno

Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin asina, feminine of asinus.

Noun

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asna f (plural asnas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) female donkey, ass

Coordinate terms

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  • (sex):
    • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) asen
    • (Surmiran, Vallader) asan

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish asna (compare Irish easna), from Proto-Celtic [Term?] (compare Welsh eis), from pre-Celtic *astonyo-, *h₂estnijo, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óst (gen. *h₂ésts), *h₃ost- (bone).

Noun

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asna f (genitive singular asna, plural asnaichean)

  1. (anatomy) rib

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
asna n-asna h-asna t-asna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “asna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “asna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

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Noun

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asna f (plural asnas)

  1. feminine of asno

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