trasnán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tarstnán (“small beam, rafter”). Equivalent to trasna +‎ -án.

Noun

trasnán m (genitive singular trasnáin, nominative plural trasnáin)

1. crosspiece, crossbar
2. (architecture) transom
3. (geometry) diagonal
4. cross-rope (thatching)
5. (dated, typography) serif

   Synonym: seiríf

Declension

Declension of trasnán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative trasnán trasnáin vocative a thrasnáin a thrasnána genitive trasnáin trasnán dative trasnán trasnáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an trasnán na trasnáin genitive an trasnáin na dtrasnán dative leis an trasnán don trasnán leis na trasnáin

Derived terms

• fiarthrasnán (“diagonal”)
• fuinneog thrasnáin (“transom window”)
• trasnánach (“diagonal”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of trasnán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
trasnán	thrasnán	dtrasnán

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) “trasnán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarstnán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language