tarsna

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tarsno.

Noun

tarsna n

1. crosspiece

Descendants

• Irish: trasna (by metathesis)

Adverb

tarsna

1. across

Descendants

• Irish: trasna (by metathesis)

Preposition

tarsna

1. across

Descendants

• Irish: trasna (by metathesis)

Mutation

Mutation of tarsna

radical	lenition	nasalization
tarsna	tharsna	tarsna pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

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