furasta

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish urusa (“at ease”).[2] Akin to fusa.

Pronunciation

Adjective

furasta (comparative fusa)

  1. easy

Declension

Declension of furasta
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative furasta fhurasta furasta;
fhurasta²
Vocative fhurasta furasta
Genitive furasta furasta furasta
Dative furasta;
fhurasta¹ 		fhurasta furasta;
fhurasta²
Comparative níos fusa
Superlative is fusa

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
furasta fhurasta bhfurasta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “furasta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airassa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 115

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish urusa.

Pronunciation

Adjective

furasta (comparative fhasa, qualitative noun fasaid or fasad)

  1. easy

Synonyms

Antonyms

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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