feileastram
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- aileastar, alastram, eileastar, eileastrom, feileastar, feileastrom, sileastar, siolastar, siolastrach, soileastar m, soileastrach f
- alasdram (superseded)[1]
Etymology
[edit]The Dictionary of the Irish Language derives Classical Gaelic soilestar from Latin salicastrum,[2] but Middle Irish ailestar[3] is attested earlier. The ending -stram/-strom found in several alternative forms is certainly taken over from the Latin.
Noun
[edit]feileastram m (genitive singular feileastraim)
- (wild) iris, yellow flag, Iris pseudacorus
Declension
[edit]Declension of feileastram
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]- feileastram cumhra m (“sweet calamus”)
- feileastram dearg m (“montbretia”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| feileastram | fheileastram | bhfeileastram |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ “feileastram”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soilestar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailestar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feileastram”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN