puisín

Irish

From puis! puis! (“puss! puss!”) (borrowed from English puss) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

puisín m (genitive singular puisín, nominative plural puisíní)

pussy-cat; kitten (a young cat)
siúl an chait ag an bpuisín ― the boy aping the man (literally, “the kitten walking like the cat”)

Declension of puisín (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an puisín	na puisíní
genitive	an phuisín	na bpuisíní
dative	leis an bpuisín don phuisín	leis na puisíní

From pus (“(protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout; snout”) +‎ -ín (diminutive suffix).

puisín m (genitive singular puisín, nominative plural puisíní)

Declension of puisín (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an puisín	na puisíní
genitive	an phuisín	na bpuisíní
dative	leis an bpuisín don phuisín	leis na puisíní

Mutated forms of *puisín*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
puisín	phuisín	bpuisín

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 109, page 43
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 360, page 123