puisbhean

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Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*gʷḗn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare bean (woman).

Noun

puisbhean f (genitive singular puismhná, nominative plural puismhná)

  1. aging spinster

Declension

Declension of puisbhean (irregular)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative puisbhean puismhná
vocative a phuisbhean a phuismhná
genitive puismhná puisbhan
dative puisbhean puismhná
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an phuisbhean na puismhná
genitive na puismhná na bpuisbhan
dative leis an bpuisbhean
don phuisbhean
leis na puismhná

Mutation

Mutated forms of puisbhean
radical lenition eclipsis
puisbhean phuisbhean bpuisbhean

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

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