iasg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish íasc, from Proto-Celtic *ɸeiskos, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (compare English fish, Latin piscis, Old English fisc). The Brythonic words (Welsh pysgod, Cornish pysk, Breton pesk) are loanwords from Latin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iəsk/

Noun

iasg m (genitive singular èisg, plural èisg or iasgan)

1. fish

   iasg air chladh ― fish at spawning

   iasg is tiops ― fish and chips

Declension

Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	iasg	èisg
genitive	èisg	iasg
dative	iasg	èisg; iasgaibh✝
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(an) t-iasg	(na) h-èisg
genitive	(an) èisg	(nan) iasg
dative	(an) iasg	(na) h-èisg; h-iasgaibh✝
vocative	èisg	iasga

^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Declension of iasg (type I masculine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	iasg	iasgan
genitive	èisg	iasgan
dative	iasg	iasgan; iasgaibh✝
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(an) t-iasg	(na) h-iasgan
genitive	(an) èisg	(nan) iasgan
dative	(an) iasg	(na) h-iasgan; h-iasgaibh✝
vocative	èisg	iasgan

^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

• iasg dubh (“salmon on its return from the sea”)
• Na h-Iasgan (“Pisces”)
• Talamh an Èisg (“Newfoundland”)

Mutation

Mutation of iasg

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iasg	n-iasg	h-iasg	t-iasg

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “iasg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íasc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language