báinseach

Irish

Alternative forms
  • báinseachán m
  • báinseán m

Etymology

From Old Irish báinsech (“open space”), from bán (“untilled, waste, unoccupied”, adjective).

Noun

báinseach f (genitive singular báinsí, nominative plural báinseacha)

  1. green, sward, greensward, lawn

Declension
Declension of báinseach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative báinseach báinseacha
Vocative a bháinseach a bháinseacha
Genitive báinsí báinseach
Dative báinseach
báinsigh (archaic, dialectal)		 báinseacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bháinseach na báinseacha
Genitive na báinsí na mbáinseach
Dative leis an mbáinseach
leis an mbáinsigh (archaic, dialectal)

don bháinseach
don bháinsigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na báinseacha

Synonyms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
báinseach bháinseach mbáinseach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • “báinsech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Further reading
  • "báinseach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “greensward” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “sward” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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