pósadh

See also: pòsadh

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish pósad m (“the act of marrying or espousing, marriage”), verbal noun of pósaid (“to marry”).[1] By surface analysis, pós +‎ -adh (verbal noun ending).

Pronunciation

Noun

pósadh m (genitive singular pósta, nominative plural póstaí)

  1. verbal noun of pós (“marry”)
  2. (state, ceremony of) marriage
Declension
Declension of pósadh (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pósadh póstaí
vocative a phósadh a phóstaí
genitive pósta póstaí
dative pósadh póstaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an pósadh na póstaí
genitive an phósta na bpóstaí
dative leis an bpósadh
don phósadh 		leis na póstaí
Derived terms
  • bean atá le pósadh (“bride-to-be”)
  • fógraí pósta
  • gan phósadh
  • gealltanas pósta (“promise of marriage; engagement”)
  • idirphósadh
  • ilphósadh
  • pósadh a dhéanamh (“to marry; to officiate at a marriage ceremony”)
  • pósadh a scaoileadh (“to dissolve a marriage”)
  • pósadh dúbailte (“double wedding”)
  • pósadh measctha (“mixed marriage”)
  • pósadh práinne (“shotgun wedding”)
  • pósadh sibhialta (“civil marriage”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠoːsˠəɡ/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈpˠoːsˠəvˠ/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈpˠoːsˠuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠɔːsˠuː/

Verb

pósadh

  1. autonomous past indicative autonomous of pós (“marry”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠoːsˠəx/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈpˠoːsˠətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈpˠoːsˠəx/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈpˠoːsˠətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈpˠoːsˠuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈpˠɔːsˠətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈpˠɔːsˠuː/

Verb

pósadh

  1. third-person singular imperative of pós (“marry”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pósadh
radical lenition eclipsis
pósadh phósadh bpósadh

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pósad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

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