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 Case Singular Plural Nominative easca eascaí Vocative a easca a eascaí Genitive easca eascaí Dative easca eascaí

Forms with the definite article Case 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

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

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