uirscéal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airscél (“famous tale; (edifying) story, parable”).

Noun

uirscéal m (genitive singular uirscéil, nominative plural uirscéalta)

1. (literary) story, fable
2. famous tale
3. apologue

Declension

Declension of uirscéal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uirscéal uirscéalta vocative a uirscéil a uirscéala genitive uirscéil uirscéal dative uirscéal uirscéalta forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uirscéal na huirscéalta genitive an uirscéil na n-uirscéal dative leis an uirscéal don uirscéal leis na huirscéalta

Synonyms

• (fable): fabhal f, fabhalscéal m, finscéal m
• (apologue): apalóg f, fabhalscéal m, fáithscéal m

Mutation

Mutated forms of uirscéal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uirscéal	n-uirscéal	huirscéal	t-uirscéal

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uirscéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airscél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language