Ísiltír

See also: ísiltír

Irish

Etymology

íseal (“low”) +‎ tír (“land”), calque of Dutch Nederland

Proper noun

an Ísiltír f (genitive na hÍsiltíre)

  1. Netherlands (the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium)
  2. Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten the Kingdom of the Netherlands; official name: Ríocht na hÍsiltíre)

Declension

Declension of Ísiltír (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Ísiltír
vocative a Ísiltír
genitive Ísiltíre
dative Ísiltír
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an Ísiltír
genitive na hÍsiltíre
dative leis an Ísiltír
don Ísiltír

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Ísiltír
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Ísiltír nÍsiltír hÍsiltír not applicable

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

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