abairt

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish epert (“a saying, utterance”), from as·beir (“says”); compare abair.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈabˠəɾˠtʲ/

Noun

abairt f (genitive singular abairte, nominative plural abairtí)

  1. sentence
  2. expression
  3. saying, adage, phrase
  4. manner, practice
  5. feat

Declension

Declension of abairt (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative abairt abairtí
vocative a abairt a abairtí
genitive abairte abairtí
dative abairt abairtí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an abairt na habairtí
genitive na habairte na n-abairtí
dative leis an abairt
don abairt 		leis na habairtí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of abairt
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
abairt n-abairt habairt not applicable

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish epert (“a saying, utterance”), from as·beir (“says”); compare abair.

Noun

abairt f (genitive singular abairte, plural abairtean)

  1. comment, phrase, expression
  2. (grammar) phrase
  3. babbling; conversation
  4. recrimination, scolding
  5. politeness in idiom
  6. education
  7. speech, articulation
Derived terms
  • abairt roimhearach (“prepositional phrase”)
  • comh-abairt (“conference, dialogue, conversation”)
  • mì-abairt (“mis-saying”)

Etymology 2

Noun

abairt f

  1. accoutrements, apparatus
  2. custom, usage, habit

Mutation

Mutation of abairt
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
abairt n-abairt h-abairt t-abairt

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “abairt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “epert”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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