Irish
- díosc, dísce
- díosg, dísg, dísge (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish dísc (“barren, dried up”), from Proto-Celtic *dī-siskʷos.
Pronunciation
Noun
dísc f (genitive singular dísce)
- dryness
- barrenness
Declension
Declension of dísc (second declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of dísc
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lenition
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eclipsis
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dhísc
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ndísc
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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
- “dísc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dísc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “díosc”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 245
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dísc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN