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

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuinseog fhuinseog bhfuinseog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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 (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 118

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