unsa

See also: unsã and únsa

Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Bisayan *qunuh + *-sa "rapport particle", from Proto-Central Philippine *qanuh, *qunuh, from Proto-Philippine *anu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu, from Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: un‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔunsa/ [ˈʔun̪.s̪ɐ]

Pronoun

únsa (Badlit spelling ᜂᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. (interrogative) what

   Nag-unsa ka? ― What are you doing?

   Unsa ang imong kinahanglan? ― What do you need?

2. (interrogative) which

   Unsa nga eskwelahan ka nanggikan? ― Which school do you came from?

Interjection

únsa? (Badlit spelling ᜂᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. said in surprise or disbelief: what?

Derived terms

• bisan unsa
• ug unsa pa kadto
• unsay ngalan gyud?

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish onza.

Noun

únsa

1. ounce

Irish

Alternative forms

• únsa (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“1/12 part”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌn̪ˠsˠə/

Noun

unsa m (genitive singular unsa, nominative plural unsaí)

1. ounce (1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, 28.3495 g)

Declension

Declension of unsa (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative unsa unsaí vocative a unsa a unsaí genitive unsa unsaí dative unsa unsaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-unsa na hunsaí genitive an unsa na n-unsaí dative leis an unsa don unsa leis na hunsaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of unsa

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
unsa	n-unsa	hunsa	t-unsa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “unsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “un(n)sa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 87

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

unsa f (definite singular unsa, indefinite plural unser or unsor, definite plural unsene or unsone)

1. definite singular of unse
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of unse