eascra

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish escra (“a vessel for dispensing water, wine, or other liquids”).

Noun

eascra m (genitive singular eascra, nominative plural eascraí)

1. beaker

   Synonym: bíocar

Declension

Declension of eascra (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative eascra eascraí vocative a eascra a eascraí genitive eascra eascraí dative eascra eascraí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-eascra na heascraí genitive an eascra na n-eascraí dative leis an eascra don eascra leis na heascraí

Derived terms

• Aos Eascra (“beaker folk”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eascra

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eascra	n-eascra	heascra	not applicable

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

Further reading

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