éad

See also: ead, EAD, -éad, and 'ead

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ét,[1] from Proto-Celtic *yantus, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-; cognate with Scottish Gaelic eud.

Pronunciation

Noun

éad m (genitive singular éada)

  1. jealousy; envy, emulation (with ag or ar plus the person feeling jealous and le or chuig plus the person being felt jealous of or towards)
    Tá éad agam leat.
    I am jealous of you.
    Bhí éad air chuici.
    He was jealous towards her.

Declension

Declension of éad (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative éad
vocative a éad
genitive éada
dative éad
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-éad
genitive an éada
dative leis an éad
don éad

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of éad
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éad n-éad héad t-éad

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 25, page 15
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 91
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 396, page 132

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