altranas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish altrannas m (“fostering, fosterage, nurture”), from altra n or f (“foster-father”).

Noun

altranas m (genitive singular altranais)

1. nursing

Declension

Declension of altranas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative altranas vocative a altranais genitive altranais dative altranas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-altranas genitive an altranais dative leis an altranas don altranas

Synonyms

• banaltracht

Derived terms

• bord altranais m (“nursing board”)
• teach altranais m (“nursing home”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of altranas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
altranas	n-altranas	haltranas	t-altranas

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