trasnán
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish tarstnán (“small beam, rafter”). Equivalent to trasna + -án.
Noun
[edit]trasnán m (genitive singular trasnáin, nominative plural trasnáin)
- crosspiece, crossbar
- (architecture) transom
- (geometry) diagonal
- cross-rope (thatching)
- (dated, typography) serif
- Synonym: seiríf
Declension
[edit]Declension of trasnán
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]- fiarthrasnán (“diagonal”)
- fuinneog thrasnáin (“transom window”)
- trasnánach (“diagonal”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| trasnán | thrasnán | dtrasnán |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trasnán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarstnán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language