Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cassar.
Pronunciation
Noun
casair f (genitive singular casrach, nominative plural casracha)
- (literary) (shower of) hail
Declension
Declension of casair (fifth declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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casair
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casracha
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| vocative
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a chasair
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a chasracha
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| genitive
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casrach
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casracha
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| dative
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casair
casraigh (archaic, dialectal)
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casracha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an chasair
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na casracha
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| genitive
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na casrach
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na gcasracha
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| dative
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leis an gcasair
leis an gcasraigh (archaic, dialectal)
don chasair
don chasraigh (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na casracha
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Derived terms
- casair thine (“shower of sparks, flash of lightning”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of casair
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| casair
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chasair
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gcasair
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “casar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “casair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 120
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “casair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN