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easpag
easpag
Irish
easpag
Alternative forms
- easbog (superseded)
- eascob (obsolete)
- easpog (superseded)
Noun
easpag m (genitive singular easpaig, nominative plural easpaig)
- (Christianity, chess) bishop
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 30:
- ə givnīn̄ tū ḱē n sōŕc l̄ā vī ān̄, ən uər ȷeŕnəx ə hāniǵ ə c-æspəg? kivnīm.
- conventional orthography: An gcuimhníonn tú cén sórt lá a bhí ann an uair deireanach a tháinig an t-easpag? Cuimhním.
- Do you remember what kind of day it was the last the bishop came? I do.
- conventional orthography: An gcuimhníonn tú cén sórt lá a bhí ann an uair deireanach a tháinig an t-easpag? Cuimhním.
- ə givnīn̄ tū ḱē n sōŕc l̄ā vī ān̄, ən uər ȷeŕnəx ə hāniǵ ə c-æspəg? kivnīm.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 30:
Declension
Declension of easpag
First declension
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See also
| Chess pieces in Irish · fir fichille (layout · text) | |||||
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| rí | banríon | caiseal | easpag | ridire | ceithearnach, fichillín |
Mutation
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| easpag | n-easpag | heaspag | t-easpag |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- “1 epscop” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “easpog” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
- "easpag" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.