báisín

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English basin, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum, from Late Latin bacca (“wine jug”).

Pronunciation

Noun

báisín m (genitive singular báisín, nominative plural báisíní)

  1. basin
  2. (cockle-, scallop-) shell

Declension

Declension of báisín

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative báisín báisíní
Vocative a bháisín a bháisíní
Genitive báisín báisíní
Dative báisín báisíní

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an báisín na báisíní
Genitive an bháisín na mbáisíní
Dative leis an mbáisín

don bháisín

leis na báisíní

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
báisín bháisín mbáisín
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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