easca

See also: éasca

Irish

Alternative forms
  • easc f

Etymology

From Old Irish esca (“bog, quagmire; depression, puddle”), probably from esc (“water”) (compare uisce).

Noun

easca f (genitive singular easca, nominative plural eascaí)

  1. wet, sedgy bog
  2. depression, hollow

Declension
Declension of easca

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative easca eascaí
Vocative a easca a eascaí
Genitive easca eascaí
Dative easca eascaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an easca na heascaí
Genitive na heasca na n-eascaí
Dative leis an easca

don easca

 leis na heascaí

Derived terms
  • eascach (“wet, swampy; sunken, sagged”)

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

References
  • "easca" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “esca” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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