osna

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See also: ósna

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish osnad, from uss- + anad (“staying”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

osna f (genitive singular osna, nominative plural osnaí)

  1. sigh

Declension

Declension of osna (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative osna osnaí
vocative a osna a osnaí
genitive osna osnaí
dative osna osnaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an osna na hosnaí
genitive na hosna na n-osnaí
dative leis an osna
don osna 		leis na hosnaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of osna
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
osna n-osna hosna not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “osna”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “osnad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 132, page 51

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish osnad, from uss- + anad (“staying”).

Pronunciation

Noun

osna f (genitive singular osna, plural osnaidhean)

  1. sigh
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