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easpa

easpa

Irish

Alternative forms

easba (superseded)
easbaidh (superseded)

Noun

easpa f ‎(genitive singular easpa, nominative plural easpaí)

lack, want, absence
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 30:
  tā šin duəl d æspə ūsāȷə.
  conventional orthography: Tá sin sual d’easpa úsaide.
  That is due to a lack of practice.
(biology) deficiency, defect
(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

easpach ‎(“lacking, wanting; missing, lost; deficient, defective”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
easpa	n-easpa	heaspa	t-easpa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“esba(e)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“easbaiḋ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
"easpa" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.