uirscéal

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airscél (“famous tale; (edifying) story, parable”).

Noun

uirscéal m (genitive singular uirscéil, nominative plural uirscéalta)

  1. (literary) story, fable
  2. famous tale
  3. apologue

Declension

Declension of uirscéal (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative uirscéal uirscéalta
vocative a uirscéil a uirscéala
genitive uirscéil uirscéal
dative uirscéal uirscéalta
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-uirscéal na huirscéalta
genitive an uirscéil na n-uirscéal
dative leis an uirscéal
don uirscéal 		leis na huirscéalta

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of uirscéal
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uirscéal n-uirscéal huirscéal t-uirscéal

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

References

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