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Often understood to be a contraction ofins na, but the formsna was in common use by the 12th century and accepted in Classical Gaelic poetry whileins is a later innovation with the-n- reintroduced by analogy.

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Irish preposition contractions

Basic form	Contracted with							Copular forms
Basic form	an(“the sg”)	na(“the pl”)	mo(“my”)	do(“your”)	a(“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár(“our”)	ar(“which (past)”)	(before consonant)	(present/future before vowel)	(past/conditional before vowel)
de(“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded,det	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do(“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod,dot	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi(“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i(“in”)	sa,san	sna	i mo im*	i do id,it	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le(“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led,let	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó(“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód,ót	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí(“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh
*Dialectal.

References

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McKenna, Lambert, editor (1944),Bardic Syntactical Tracts, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page113: “Before pl. art.i n- givesis na,’sna; in such casesa h- givesas na. (…) Before sg. art.i n- isisin, san (oftensa before consonants).”
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “i”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

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Extracted from a reinterpretation of forms likeins na,as na,gus na,leis na asin/a/gu/lesna.

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sna (triggersh-prothesis)

(Munster)Alternative form ofna(“thepl”)

Usage notes

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This form is found after the prepositionsaige,de,do, andó, especially in older texts. In modern texts,aiges na has thes on the preposition, whiledesna,dosna, andósna are more commonly written as single words—to the extent they are found at all, since they occur only in Munster dialect and are not part of the standard written language.