iascaire

Irish

From Middle Irish íascaire.^[1] By surface analysis, iasc (“fish”) +‎ -aire. Compare Scottish Gaelic iasgair.

iascaire m (genitive singular iascaire, nominative plural iascairí)

Declension of iascaire (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an t-iascaire	na hiascairí
genitive	an iascaire	na n-iascairí
dative	leis an iascaire don iascaire	leis na hiascairí

gairdín an iascaire
garraí an iascaire (“the sea”, literally “the fisherman's garden”)
iascaire coirneach
iascaire oidhreachta (“legacy-hunter”)
iascaire péarlaí (“pearl diver”)
iascaireacht
is maith an t-iascaire an té atá ar an talamh (“the person who doesn't have to do the task finds it easy to criticize those who do”)
pióg an iascaire (“fisherman's pie”)
snaidhm an iascaire (“fisherman's knot”)

Mutated forms of *iascaire*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iascaire	n-iascaire	hiascaire	t-iascaire

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íascaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 230, page 116
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 141