fuinseog

Irish

Alternative forms

• fuinse, fuinseann
• fuindseog (obsolete)
• fuinnseog, fuinnseóg, fuinseóg (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish uinnius +‎ -óg, with f added because uinseog was reinterpreted as fhuinseog in lenition environments.

Pronunciation

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɪn̠ʲʃoːɡ/

Noun

fuinseog f (genitive singular fuinseoige, nominative plural fuinseoga)

1. common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)

Declension

Declension of fuinseog (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fuinseog fuinseoga vocative a fhuinseog a fhuinseoga genitive fuinseoige fuinseog dative fuinseog fuinseoig (archaic, dialectal) fuinseoga forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhuinseog na fuinseoga genitive na fuinseoige na bhfuinseog dative leis an bhfuinseog leis an bhfuinseoig (archaic, dialectal) don fhuinseog don fhuinseoig (archaic, dialectal) leis na fuinseoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuinseog

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuinseog	fhuinseog	bhfuinseog

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) “fuinseog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuinseog”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fuinseog”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024