éadach

Irish

Alternative forms

eudach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈia̯d̪ˠəx/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠəx/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠa(x)/

Noun

éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)

(countable) cloth
Synonym: anairt
(collective, nautical) sail
(in the singular or in the plural) clothes, clothing
Proverb: Den duine an t-éadach. ― Clothes make the man.

Declension

Declension of éadach (first declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	éadach	éadaí
vocative	a éadaigh	a éadaí
genitive	éadaigh	éadaí
dative	éadach	éadaí

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an t-éadach	na héadaí
genitive	an éadaigh	na n-éadaí
dative	leis an éadach don éadach	leis na héadaí

Derived terms

ciseán éadaigh (“clothes-basket”)
éadach a dhéanamh (“make sail”)
éadach altóra (“altar-cloth”)
éadach baile (“homespun”)
éadach boird
éadach cinn (“jib, head-cloth”)
éadach cláir
éadach cnis (“underwear”)
éadach cultacha (“suiting”)
éadach leapa
éadach leapa (“bedclothes”)
éadach lín
éadach na soithí (“tea towel”)
éadach ola (“oil-cloth”)
éadach róin (“haircloth”)
éadach saic (“sackcloth”)
éadach síoda (“silk cloth, silk fabric”)
éadach soitheach (“dish-cloth”)
éadach tábla (“table-cloth”)
éadach tochta (“ticking”)
éadach tráidire (“tray-cloth”)
éadach tuáillí
fo-éadach (“underclothing”)
líne éadaigh (“clothes-line”)
línéadach
mionéadach (“haberdashery”)
pionna éadaigh
seoléadach (“sailcloth”)
siopa éadaigh (“draper's shop”)
taiséadach (“shroud, winding sheet”)
tuáilléadach (“terry cloth”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *éadach*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éadach	n-éadach	héadach	t-éadach

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) “éadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 étach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “éadach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 92
“éadach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025