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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish uisin. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic oisinn.
Pronunciation
Noun
uisinn f (genitive singular uisinne or uiseann, nominative plural uisinní or uiseanna)
- temple (of the head)
Declension
Standard forms:
Alternative forms:
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| uisinn
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n-uisinn
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huisinn
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not applicable
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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
- “uisinn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ussin, usine, uisin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “uisinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uisinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 69