ursain

Irish

Alternative forms

• ursa f

Etymology

From Middle Irish airsan, aursain, from Old Irish airsa (“door-post, jamb”).

Noun

ursain f (genitive singular ursaine or ursan, nominative plural ursaineacha or ursana or ursanacha)

1. (architecture) doorpost, doorjamb
2. (figuratively) prop, support

Declension

Declension of ursain (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ursain ursaineacha vocative a ursain a ursaineacha genitive ursaine ursaineacha dative ursain ursaineacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ursain na hursaineacha genitive na hursaine na n-ursaineacha dative leis an ursain don ursain leis na hursaineacha

Derived terms

• idir cleith agus ursain

Mutation

Mutated forms of ursain

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ursain	n-ursain	hursain	not applicable

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