trasnán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tarstnán (“small beam, rafter”). Equivalent to trasna +‎ -án.

Noun

trasnán m (genitive singular trasnáin, nominative plural trasnáin)

crosspiece, crossbar
(architecture) transom
(geometry) diagonal
cross-rope (thatching)
(dated, typography) serif
Synonym: seiríf

Declension

Declension of trasnán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trasnán	trasnáin
Vocative	a thrasnáin	a thrasnána
Genitive	trasnáin	trasnán
Dative	trasnán	trasnáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an trasnán	na trasnáin
Genitive	an trasnáin	na dtrasnán
Dative	leis an trasnán don trasnán	leis na trasnáin

Derived terms

fiarthrasnán (“diagonal”)
fuinneog thrasnáin (“transom window”)
trasnánach (“diagonal”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trasnán	thrasnán	dtrasnán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"trasnán" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tarstnán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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