iasc

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish íasc,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ɸeiskos, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-; compare fish, Latin piscis. The Brythonic words (Welsh pysgodyn, Breton pesk) are loanwords from Latin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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iasc m (genitive singular éisc, nominative plural éisc)

  1. fish

Declension

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Derived terms

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Verb

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iasc (present analytic iascann, future analytic iascfaidh, verbal noun iascach, past participle iasctha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) fish

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iasc n-iasc hiasc t-iasc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íasc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 46, page 24
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 158, page 61

Further reading

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