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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish esca (“bog, quagmire; depression, puddle”), probably from esc (“water”) (compare uisce).
Noun
easca f (genitive singular easca, nominative plural eascaí)
- wet, sedgy bog
- depression, hollow
Declension
Derived terms
- eascach (“wet, swampy; sunken, sagged”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| easca
|
n-easca
|
heasca
|
not applicable
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “easca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “esca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language