óinseach

See also: òinseach

Irish

From Old Irish óinsech (“foolish or giddy woman”).^[1]

óinseach f (genitive singular óinsí, nominative plural óinseacha)

Declension of óinseach (second declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	óinseach	óinseacha
vocative	a óinseach	a óinseacha
genitive	óinsí	óinseach
dative	óinseach óinsigh (archaic, dialectal)	óinseacha

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an óinseach	na hóinseacha
genitive	na hóinsí	na n-óinseach
dative	leis an óinseach leis an óinsigh (archaic, dialectal) don óinseach don óinsigh (archaic, dialectal)	leis na hóinseacha

Mutated forms of *óinseach*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
óinseach	n-óinseach	hóinseach	not applicable

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óinsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 24
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 17