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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish airsan, aursain, from Old Irish airsa (“door-post, jamb”).
Noun
ursain f (genitive singular ursaine or ursan, nominative plural ursaineacha or ursana or ursanacha)
- (architecture) doorpost, doorjamb
- (figuratively) prop, support
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| ursain
|
n-ursain
|
hursain
|
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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ursain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language