apasam

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English opossum, from Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa.

Noun

apasam m (genitive singular apasaim, nominative plural apasaim)

  1. opossum (American marsupial)

Declension
Declension of apasam

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative apasam apasaim
Vocative a apasaim a apasama
Genitive apasaim apasam
Dative apasam apasaim

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-apasam na hapasaim
Genitive an apasaim na n-apasam
Dative leis an apasam

don apasam

 leis na hapasaim

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
apasam n-apasam hapasam not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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