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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish isdadh, from Old Irish etsad (“treasury”).
Noun
iosta m (genitive singular iosta, nominative plural iostaí)
- (literary) abode, dwelling, habitation
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iosta
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n-iosta
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hiosta
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etsad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language