tasc

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠasˠk/

Noun

tasc m (genitive singular taisc, nominative plural tascanna)

  1. task, job, set piece of work
  2. assignment, stint (quantity or task assigned)
  3. taskwork, piece work

Declension

Declension of tasc (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tasc tascanna
vocative a thaisc a thascanna
genitive taisc tascanna
dative tasc tascanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tasc na tascanna
genitive an taisc na dtascanna
dative leis an tasc
don tasc 		leis na tascanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of tasc
radical lenition eclipsis
tasc thasc dtasc

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

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “tasc”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1182; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tasc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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