inseachas

Irish

Etymology

From inse (“water-meadow”) +‎ -achas.

Pronunciation

Noun

inseachas m (genitive singular inseachais)

  1. sheltered place in the mountains for cattle

Declension

Declension of inseachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative inseachas
vocative a inseachais
genitive inseachais
dative inseachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-inseachas
genitive an inseachais
dative leis an inseachas
don inseachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of inseachas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
inseachas n-inseachas hinseachas t-inseachas

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 254, page 91

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ínseaċas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 598; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “inseachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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