fuinseog

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish uinnius +‎ -óg,[1] with f added because uinseog was reinterpreted as fhuinseog in lenition environments.

Pronunciation

Noun

fuinseog f (genitive singular fuinseoige, nominative plural fuinseoga)

  1. common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)

Declension

Declension of fuinseog (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fuinseog fuinseoga
vocative a fhuinseog a fhuinseoga
genitive fuinseoige fuinseog
dative fuinseog
fuinseoig (archaic, dialectal) 		fuinseoga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fhuinseog na fuinseoga
genitive na fuinseoige na bhfuinseog
dative leis an bhfuinseog
leis an bhfuinseoig (archaic, dialectal)
don fhuinseog
don fhuinseoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na fuinseoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuinseog
radical lenition eclipsis
fuinseog fhuinseog bhfuinseog

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuinnseóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 118

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