puisbhean

Irish

Etymology
PIE word
*gʷḗn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare bean (“woman”).

Noun

puisbhean f (genitive singular puismhná, nominative plural puismhná)

  1. aging spinster

Declension
Declension of puisbhean

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative puisbhean puismhná
Vocative a phuisbhean a phuismhná
Genitive puismhná puisbhan
Dative puisbhean puismhná

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an phuisbhean na puismhná
Genitive na puismhná na bpuisbhan
Dative leis an bpuisbhean

don phuisbhean

 leis na puismhná

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
puisbhean phuisbhean bpuisbhean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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