feileastram

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

The Dictionary of the Irish Language derives Classical Gaelic soilestar from Latin salicastrum,[2] but Middle Irish ailestar[3] is attested earlier. The ending -stram/-strom found in several alternative forms is certainly taken over from the Latin.

Noun

feileastram m (genitive singular feileastraim)

  1. (wild) iris, yellow flag, Iris pseudacorus

Declension

Declension of feileastram (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative feileastram
vocative a fheileastraim
genitive feileastraim
dative feileastram
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an feileastram
genitive an fheileastraim
dative leis an bhfeileastram
don fheileastram

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of feileastram
radical lenition eclipsis
feileastram fheileastram bhfeileastram

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “feileastram”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soilestar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailestar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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