deisceart

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish descert, from dess (“right, south”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɛʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ/

Noun

deisceart m (genitive singular deiscirt)

1. south (any absolute geographic location on the right, as one faces the rising sun)
2. The South (of any geographic place)

Declension

Declension of deisceart (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative deisceart vocative a dheiscirt genitive deiscirt dative deisceart forms with the definite article case singular nominative an deisceart genitive an deiscirt dative leis an deisceart don deisceart

Coordinate terms

• tuaisceart (“north”)
• oirthuaisceart (“northeast”)
• oirthear (“east”)
• oirdheisceart (“southeast”)
• iardheisceart (“southwest”)
• iarthar (“west”)
• iarthuaisceart (“northwest”)

Derived terms

• deisceartach

See also

• aneas (“from the south”)
• ó dheas (“to the south”)
• theas (“in the south”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of deisceart

radical	lenition	eclipsis
deisceart	dheisceart	ndeisceart

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

Further reading

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