ainsile

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ainnsile, borrowed from Middle English, from Old English handselen or Old Norse handsal.

Noun

ainsile m (genitive singular ainsile, nominative plural ainsilí)

1. handsel, first gift

Declension

Declension of ainsile (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ainsile ainsilí vocative a ainsile a ainsilí genitive ainsile ainsilí dative ainsile ainsilí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ainsile na hainsilí genitive an ainsile na n-ainsilí dative leis an ainsile don ainsile leis na hainsilí

Mutation

Mutated forms of ainsile

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainsile	n-ainsile	hainsile	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ainsile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainnsile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language