prinnsa

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin princeps.

Noun

prinnsa m

1. prince

Descendants

• Irish: prionsa
• Scottish Gaelic: prionnsa

Mutation

Mutation of prinnsa

radical	lenition	nasalization
prinnsa	phrinnsa or unchanged	prinnsa pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prinnsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language