airsa

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aursa, airise

Noun

airsa f

1. jamb, doorpost

Declension

Feminine n-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	airsa	airsainL	airsain
vocative	airsa	airsainL	airsanaH
accusative	airsainN	airsainL	airsanaH
genitive	airsan	airsanL	airsanN
dative	airsainL, airsaL	airsanaib	airsanaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: airsa, aursa
  • Irish: ursa
  • Scottish Gaelic: ursa
• Middle Irish: airsain, aursain (from the original accusative/dative)
  • Irish: ursain
  • Manx: essyn
  • Scottish Gaelic: ursainn
• ⇒ Middle Irish: comarsa (“neighbor”, literally “one with a common doorpost”)
  • Irish: comharsa
  • ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: coimhearsnach

Mutation

Mutation of airsa

radical	lenition	nasalization
airsa (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	airsa	n-airsa

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language