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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish trillsén. By surface analysis, trilis (“tress; torch”) + -án
Pronunciation
Noun
trilseán m (genitive singular trilseáin, nominative plural trilseáin)
- tress, braid, plait
- Synonyms: dlaoi, dual
- trilseán oinniún ― string of onions
- (historical) plaited rushlight
- (historical) torch, link (torch used to light dark streets)
- Synonym: tóirse
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| trilseán
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thrilseán
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dtrilseán
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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
- “trilseán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “trillsén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “trilseán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society