easpa

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish esba, espa, from Old Irish esbae, espe (“uselessness, vanity, folly; idleness, play, wantonness”), from ess- + bae (“good, profit”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

easpa f (genitive singular easpa, nominative plural easpaí)

  1. lack, want, absence
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 30:
      tā šin duəl d æspə ūsāȷə.
      [Tá sin dual d’easpa úsáide.]
      That is due to a lack of practice.
  2. (biology) deficiency, defect
  3. (medicine) abscess

Declension

Declension of easpa (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative easpa easpaí
vocative a easpa a easpaí
genitive easpa easpaí
dative easpa easpaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an easpa na heaspaí
genitive na heaspa na n-easpaí
dative leis an easpa
don easpa 		leis na heaspaí

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • easpa reatha (“running sore, running abscess”)
  • easpach (“lacking, wanting; missing, lost; deficient, defective”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of easpa
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
easpa n-easpa heaspa 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

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “esba(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 110, page 59
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75

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