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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish prísúnach, from prísún (“prison”), from Middle English prisoun, from Anglo-Norman prisun, prisoun, from Latin prehensiō (“I seize, apprehend, arrest, capture”). By surface analysis, príosún + -ach.
Noun
príosúnach m (genitive singular príosúnaigh, nominative plural príosúnaigh)
- prisoner
- Synonym: cime
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| príosúnach
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phríosúnach
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bpríosúnach
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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) “príosúnach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prísúnach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “príosúnach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “príosúnach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024