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 singular plural nominative easca eascaí vocative a easca a eascaí genitive easca eascaí dative easca eascaí forms with the definite article 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

Mutated forms of easca

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
easca	n-easca	heasca	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• 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