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Etymology

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Noun

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lasc f (genitive singular laisce, nominative plural lasca)

  1. lash; whip
    • 2010, Louis de Paor, Máistir Dána / Past Master, in agus rud eile de / and another thing, pages 17 (Irish) and 16 (English):
      Nuair a tharraing sé lasc
      gan choinne leis ar a dheasc
      tháinig allas amach tré bhoinn ár gcos,
      When he drew a lash of the baton
      on the desk without warning
      we could feel the sweat on the soles of our feet,
  2. switch
  3. (Gaelic football) punt

Declension

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Declension of lasc (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative lasc lasca
vocative a lasc a lasca
genitive laisce lasc
dative lasc lasca
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an lasc na lasca
genitive na laisce na lasc
dative leis an lasc
don lasc
leis na lasca

Derived terms

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Verb

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lasc (present analytic lascann, future analytic lascfaidh, verbal noun lascadh, past participle lasctha)

  1. lash, whip
  2. kick, strike
    • Máire Mhac an tSaoi, An Crann (The Tree), reprinted with an English translation in Declan Kiberd's Inventing Ireland, page 603:
      Thit an tóin as mo bholg
      is faoi mar a gheobhainn lascadh cic
      nó leacadar sna baotháin
      íon taom anbhainne isteach orm
      a dhein chomh lag san mé
      gurb ar éigin a bhí ardú na méire ionam
      as san go ceann trí lá.
      []
      Paul Muldoon's version is as unbuttoned as the original:
      []
      The bottom falling out of my belly
      as if I had got a kick[ing] up the arse
      or a punch in the kidneys.
      A fainting-fit coming over me
      that took the legs from under me
      and left me so zonked
      I could barely lift a finger
      till Wednesday.
  3. dash
  4. (with ann/as) switch (on/off)

Conjugation

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