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osna

See also: ósna

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish osnad, from uss- + anad (“staying”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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osna f (genitive singular osna, nominative plural osnaí)

  1. sigh

Declension

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Declension of osna

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative osna osnaí
Vocative a osna a osnaí
Genitive osna osnaí
Dative osna osnaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an osna na hosnaí
Genitive na hosna na n-osnaí
Dative leis an osna

don osna

leis na hosnaí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ “osna”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “osnad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 90
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 51

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish osnad, from uss- + anad (“staying”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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osna f (genitive singular osna, plural osnaidhean)

  1. sigh
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