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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish íasc, from Proto-Celtic *ɸeiskos, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (compare English fish, Latin piscis, Old English fisc). The Brythonic words (Welsh pysgod, Cornish pysk, Breton pesk) are loanwords from Latin.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /iəsk/
Noun
iasg m (genitive singular èisg, plural èisg or iasgan)
- fish
- iasg air chladh ― fish at spawning
- iasg is tiops ― fish and chips
Declension
Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “iasg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íasc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language