apasam

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English opossum, from Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa.

Noun

apasam m (genitive singular apasaim, nominative plural apasaim)

  1. opossum (American marsupial)

Declension

Declension of apasam (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative apasam apasaim
vocative a apasaim a apasama
genitive apasaim apasam
dative apasam apasaim
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-apasam na hapasaim
genitive an apasaim na n-apasam
dative leis an apasam
don apasam 		leis na hapasaim

Mutation

Mutated forms of apasam
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
apasam n-apasam hapasam not applicable

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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