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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish airscél (“famous tale; (edifying) story, parable”).
Noun
uirscéal m (genitive singular uirscéil, nominative plural uirscéalta)
- (literary) story, fable
- famous tale
- apologue
Declension
Synonyms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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uirscéal
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n-uirscéal
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huirscéal
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t-uirscéal
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uirscéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airscél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language