pinsean

Irish

Alternative forms

  • peinsiún
  • pinsion (obsolete)

Etymology

From English pension, from Middle English pencioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pinsean m (genitive singular pinsin, nominative plural pinsin)

  1. (finance) pension (regular payment due to a person in consideration of past services)

Declension

Declension of pinsean (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pinsean pinsin
vocative a phinsin a phinseana
genitive pinsin pinsean
dative pinsean pinsin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an pinsean na pinsin
genitive an phinsin na bpinsean
dative leis an bpinsean
don phinsean 		leis na pinsin

Mutation

Mutated forms of pinsean
radical lenition eclipsis
pinsean phinsean bpinsean

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 224, page 114

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