urusa

Irish

Adjective

urusa

1. Obsolete form of furasta.

Mutation

Mutated forms of urusa

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urusa	n-urusa	hurusa	not applicable

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- (“at”) + assu (“ease”).

Adjective

urusa

1. easy

Descendants

• Irish: furasta
• Scottish Gaelic: furasda

Mutation

Mutation of urusa

radical	lenition	nasalization
urusa (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-urusa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old 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), “airassa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language