Ianasóir

Irish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ottoman Turkish یڭیچری (yeniçeri) (Turkish yeniçeri), from یڭی (yeni, “modern, new”) + چری (çeri, “army”), through an intermediate form in a European language such as French janissaire, Italian giannizzero, ianizzero, Latin Ianizari, Ienizari, Portuguese janizaro, or Spanish genizaro. Compare Dutch janitsaar, German Janitschar.

Noun

Ianasóir m (genitive singular Ianasóra, nominative plural Ianasóirí)

  1. (historical) janissary

Declension

Declension of Ianasóir (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative Ianasóir Ianasóirí
vocative a Ianasóir a Ianasóirí
genitive Ianasóra Ianasóirí
dative Ianasóir Ianasóirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tIanasóir na hIanasóirí
genitive an Ianasóra na nIanasóirí
dative leis an Ianasóir
don Ianasóir 		leis na hIanasóirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of Ianasóir
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Ianasóir nIanasóir hIanasóir tIanasóir

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

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