cuisne

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuisne, coisne.

Noun

cuisne m (genitive singular cuisne)

1. frost (cover of minute ice crystals)

   Synonym: sioc

Declension

Declension of cuisne

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cuisne Vocative a chuisne Genitive cuisne Dative cuisne

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an cuisne Genitive an chuisne Dative leis an gcuisne don chuisne

Derived terms

• cuisneach
• cuisneoir
• cuisnigh
• cuisniúil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuisne	chuisne	gcuisne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “cuisne”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuisne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cuisne”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 212
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuisne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN