ispín

See also: ípsin and I-spin

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse íspen or speni.[1][2] Compare Scottish Gaelic isbean.

Noun

ispín m (genitive singular ispín, nominative plural ispíní)

  1. sausage

Declension

Declension of ispín (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ispín ispíní
vocative a ispín a ispíní
genitive ispín ispíní
dative ispín ispíní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-ispín na hispíní
genitive an ispín na n-ispíní
dative leis an ispín
don ispín 		leis na hispíní

Mutation

Mutated forms of ispín
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ispín n-ispín hispín t-ispín

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

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “isbean”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 219
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “í-spen”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 319

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