altranas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish altrannas m (“fostering, fosterage, nurture”), from altra n or f (“foster-father”).

Noun

altranas m (genitive singular altranais)

1. nursing

Declension

Declension of altranas

First declension

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

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-altranas Genitive an altranais Dative leis an altranas don altranas

Synonyms

• banaltracht

Derived terms

• bord altranais m (“nursing board”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
altranas	n-altranas	haltranas	t-altranas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “altranas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “altrannas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language