cuisne

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cuisne, coisne.

Noun

cuisne m (genitive singular cuisne)

frost (cover of minute ice crystals)
Synonym: sioc

Declension

Declension of cuisne

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	cuisne
Vocative	a chuisne
Genitive	cuisne
Dative	cuisne

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an cuisne
Genitive	an chuisne
Dative	leis an gcuisne don chuisne

Derived terms

cuisneach
cuisneoir
cuisnigh
cuisniúil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuisne	chuisne	gcuisne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

“cuisne” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuisne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
“cuisne” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 212.
"cuisne" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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