Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish súist, súiste, from Latin fūstis.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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súiste m (genitive singular súiste, nominative plural súistí)

  1. flail

Declension

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Derived terms

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  • súisteáil f (flailing, threshing; beating, thrashing)
  • súisteáil (flail, thresh; thrash, verb)
  • súisteoir m (thresher) (person with flail)
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Noun

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súiste f sg

  1. genitive singular of súist

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
súiste shúiste
after an, tsúiste
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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súst, súist, sústa, súiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 348, page 120

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