puisbhean

Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*gʷḗn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare bean (“woman”).

Noun

puisbhean f (genitive singular puismhná, nominative plural puismhná)

1. aging spinster

Declension

Declension of puisbhean

Irregular

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative puisbhean puismhná Vocative a phuisbhean a phuismhná Genitive puismhná puisbhan Dative puisbhean puismhná

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an phuisbhean na puismhná Genitive na puismhná na bpuisbhan Dative leis an bpuisbhean don phuisbhean leis na puismhná

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
puisbhean	phuisbhean	bpuisbhean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “puisbhean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN