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geirseog

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Geirsí +‎ -óg.

Noun

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geirseog f (genitive singular geirseoige, nominative plural geirseoga)

  1. Jersey (cow of a particular breed)

Declension

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Declension of geirseog (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative geirseog geirseoga
vocative a gheirseog a gheirseoga
genitive geirseoige geirseog
dative geirseog
geirseoig (archaic, dialectal)
geirseoga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gheirseog na geirseoga
genitive na geirseoige na ngeirseog
dative leis an ngeirseog
leis an ngeirseoig (archaic, dialectal)
don gheirseog
don gheirseoig (archaic, dialectal)
leis na geirseoga

Mutation

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Mutated forms of geirseog
radical lenition eclipsis
geirseog gheirseog ngeirseog

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

Further reading

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  • geirseog”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024