easca - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- easc f
From Old Irish esca (“bog, quagmire; depression, puddle”), probably from esc (“water”) (compare uisce).
easca f (genitive singular easca, nominative plural eascaí)
- eascach (“wet, swampy; sunken, sagged”)
radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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easca | n-easca | heasca | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
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- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “easca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “esca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language