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)
- (architecture) doorpost, doorjamb
- (figuratively) prop, support
Declension
Declension of ursain
Second declension
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Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| ursain | n-ursain | hursain | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ursain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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