osna

See also: ósna

Irish

From Old Irish osnad, from uss- + anad (“staying”).^[2]

osna f (genitive singular osna, nominative plural osnaí)

Declension of osna (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an osna	na hosnaí
genitive	na hosna	na n-osnaí
dative	leis an osna don osna	leis na hosnaí

Mutated forms of *osna*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
osna	n-osna	hosna	not applicable

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

^ “osna”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “osnad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 132, page 51

From Old Irish osnad, from uss- + anad (“staying”).

osna f (genitive singular osna, plural osnaidhean)