eascaine

Irish

From Old Irish escaine (“malediction, cursing”).

eascaine f (genitive singular eascaine, nominative plural eascainí)

Declension of eascaine (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an eascaine	na heascainí
genitive	na heascaine	na n-eascainí
dative	leis an eascaine don eascaine	leis na heascainí

Mutated forms of *eascaine*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eascaine	n-eascaine	heascaine	not applicable

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

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eascaine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “escaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eascaine”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“eascaine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 22