easpa

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish esba, espa, from Old Irish esbae, espe (“uselessness, vanity, folly; idleness, play, wantonness”), from ess- + bae (“good, profit”).

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈasˠpˠə/, /ˈɑsˠpˠə/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈæsˠpˠə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈasˠwi/[1] (corresponding to the form easbhaidh)

Noun

easpa f (genitive singular easpa, nominative plural easpaí)

  1. lack, want, absence
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 30:
      tā šin duəl d æspə ūsāȷə.
      Tá sin dual d’easpa úsáide. (conventional orthography)
      That is due to a lack of practice.
  2. (biology) deficiency, defect
  3. (medicine) abscess

Declension
Declension of easpa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative easpa easpaí
Vocative a easpa a easpaí
Genitive easpa easpaí
Dative easpa easpaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an easpa na heaspaí
Genitive na heaspa na n-easpaí
Dative leis an easpa

don easpa

 leis na heaspaí

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • easpa reatha (“running sore, running abscess”)
  • easpach (“lacking, wanting; missing, lost; deficient, defective”, adjective)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
easpa n-easpa heaspa not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75

Further reading
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