oscar

See also: Oscar, Óscar, and Òscar

English

Etymology

Noun

oscar (plural oscars)

  1. Astronotus ocellatus, a cichlid fish, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish oscar (“outsider, new-comer, stranger; layperson, non-professional person; unskilled person, ignorant person; foe, enemy (especially an unknown one or stranger); (in late poetry) warrior, hero”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

  1. (literary) warrior, hero

Etymology 2

From Old Irish oscor, oscar m (“leap, bound”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

  1. leap, bound; agility
  2. (swimming) stroke
Alternative forms

Declension
Declension of oscar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative oscar oscair
Vocative a oscair a oscara
Genitive oscair oscar
Dative oscar oscair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-oscar na hoscair
Genitive an oscair na n-oscar
Dative leis an oscar

don oscar

 leis na hoscair

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

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