iasg

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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)

  1. fish
    iasg air chladh ― fish at spawning
    iasg is tiops ― fish and chips

Declension

Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative iasg èisg
genitive èisg iasg
dative iasg èisg; iasgaibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) t-iasg (na) h-èisg
genitive (an) èisg (nan) iasg
dative (an) iasg (na) h-èisg; h-iasgaibh✝
vocative èisg iasga

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative iasg iasgan
genitive èisg iasgan
dative iasg iasgan; iasgaibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) t-iasg (na) h-iasgan
genitive (an) èisg (nan) iasgan
dative (an) iasg (na) h-iasgan; h-iasgaibh✝
vocative èisg iasgan

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of iasg
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iasg n-iasg h-iasg t-iasg

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
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