iasg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish íasc, from Proto-Celtic *ɸēskos, from Proto-Indo-European *peisk- (compare English fish, Latin piscis, Old English fisc). The Brythonic words (Welsh pysgod, Cornish pysk, Breton pesk) are loanwords from Latin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iəsk/

Noun

iasg m (genitive singular èisg, plural èisg or iasgan)

1. fish

   iasg air chladh ― fish at spawning

   iasg is tiops ― fish and chips

Declension

Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iasg	èisg
Genitive	èisg	iasg
Dative	iasg	èisg; iasgaibh*
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) t-iasg	(na) h-èisg
Genitive	(an) èisg	(nan) iasg
Dative	(an) iasg	(na) h-èisg; h-iasgaibh*
Vocative	(a) èisg	(a) iasga

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iasg	iasgan
Genitive	èisg	iasgan
Dative	iasg	iasgan; iasgaibh*
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) t-iasg	(na) h-iasgan
Genitive	(an) èisg	(nan) iasgan
Dative	(an) iasg	(na) h-iasgan; h-iasgaibh*
Vocative	(a) èisg	(a) iasgan

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Derived terms

• iasg dubh (“salmon on its return from the sea”)
• Na h-Iasgan (“Pisces”)
• Talamh an Èisg (“Newfoundland”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “iasg”, 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), “íasc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language