From Middle Irish trillsén. By surface analysis, trilis (“tress; torch”) + -án
trilseán m (genitive singular trilseáin, nominative plural trilseáin)
- tress, braid, plait
- Synonyms: dlaoi, dual
- trilseán oinniún ― string of onions
- (historical) plaited rushlight
- (historical) torch, link (torch used to light dark streets)
- Synonym: tóirse
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- “trilseán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trillsén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “trilseán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society