éasca

See also: easca, eascã, and -ească

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish éscae, from Proto-Celtic *eiskyom (compare Manx eayst).

Noun

éasca m (genitive singular éasca)

  1. moon
Declension
Declension of éasca (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative éasca
vocative a éasca
genitive éasca
dative éasca
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-éasca
genitive an éasca
dative leis an éasca
don éasca
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish éscaid (“alert, eager”), from é- (“un-”) + scíth (“tired”) (from Proto-Celtic *skītos). Related to Welsh esgud.

Adjective

éasca

  1. nimble
  2. free-flowing, fluent, easy; ready
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

éasca

  1. vocative plural of éasc

Mutation

Mutated forms of éasca
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éasca n-éasca héasca t-éasca

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 95
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