éscae

• aesca, æscae, ésca, æscæ, éisce

From Proto-Celtic *ēskyom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːske/

éscae n (genitive éscai)

1. moon

   Synonym: ré

2. lunar month

   Synonym: mí éscai

   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, ]

     Ar is airchenn ṁbes salt hi ciunn nóidécdi mad i ndib ṅ‑uarib deac nammá bas laigu cach mí aescai oldaas trichtaige. Is ed didiu slándliged salto noichtiche co lleuth du árim in ę́scu.

     For it is certain that there should be a leap at the end of the nineteen-years-cycle if it is by twelve hours only that every lunar month is less than a space of thirty days. This, then, is the healthy law of the leap, to reckon 29½ days in the lunar month.

• Irish: éasca
• Manx: eayst

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ésca(e), éisce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language