oisre

Irish

Alternative forms

• oisir (Ulster)
• eisir, eistre, oisridh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman oistre, from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).

Noun

oisre m (genitive singular oisre, nominative plural oisrí)

1. oyster

Declension

Declension of oisre (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative oisre oisrí vocative a oisre a oisrí genitive oisre oisrí dative oisre oisrí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-oisre na hoisrí genitive an oisre na n-oisrí dative leis an oisre don oisre leis na hoisrí

Derived terms

• oisre síl
• síol oisre

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of oisre

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oisre	n-oisre	hoisre	t-oisre

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

Further reading

• “oisre”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oisre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “oisre”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 531
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oisre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN