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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cassar.
Pronunciation
Noun
casair f (genitive singular casrach, nominative plural casracha)
- (literary) (shower of) hail
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| casair
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chasair
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gcasair
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “casar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “casair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 120
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “casair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN