stáca

See also: staca

Irish

Etymology

From a conflation of Middle English stake (“stake, fencepost”) (from Old English staca, from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô) and stak (“stack”) (from Old Norse stakkr, from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz). Doublet of staca (from stak) and staic (from a variant form of stake).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠt̪ˠɑːkə/[1], /ˈsˠt̪ˠaːkə/[2]

Noun

stáca m (genitive singular stáca, nominative plural stácaí)

  1. stake (pointed long and slender piece of wood)
    loisc ag an stáca ― to burn at the stake
  2. stack (pile of identical objects)

Declension

Declension of stáca (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative stáca stácaí
vocative a stáca a stácaí
genitive stáca stácaí
dative stáca stácaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an stáca na stácaí
genitive an stáca na stácaí
dative leis an stáca
don stáca 		leis na stácaí

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • chomh seascair le lachín i stáca (“snug as a bug in a rug”, literally “as snug as a duckling in a stack”)
  • stácadh (“staking, stacking”)

References

  1. ^ Breatnach, Risteard B. (1947) The Irish of Ring, Co. Waterford: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 315, page 66
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 413, page 135

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