puisbhean

Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*gʷḗn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare bean (“woman”).

Noun

puisbhean f (genitive singular puismhná, nominative plural puismhná)

1. aging spinster

Declension

Declension of puisbhean (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative puisbhean puismhná vocative a phuisbhean a phuismhná genitive puismhná puisbhan dative puisbhean puismhná forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an phuisbhean na puismhná genitive na puismhná na bpuisbhan dative leis an bpuisbhean don phuisbhean leis na puismhná

Mutation

Mutated forms of puisbhean

radical	lenition	eclipsis
puisbhean	phuisbhean	bpuisbhean

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “puisbhean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN