prinnsa

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin princeps.

Noun

prinnsa m

1. prince

Descendants

• Irish: prionsa
• Scottish Gaelic: prionnsa

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
prinnsa	phrinnsa or unchanged	prinnsa pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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