easpa

Irish

Alternative forms

• easba (superseded)
• easbaidh (superseded)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspə/

Noun

easpa f (genitive singular easpa, nominative plural easpaí)

1. lack, want, absence
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 30:

     tā šin duəl d æspə ūsāȷə.

     conventional orthography: Tá sin sual d’easpa úsaide.

     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

• (deficiency): díothacht, easnamh, easpacht

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “esba(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “easpa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN