adhastar

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

adhastar m (genitive singular adhastair, nominative plural adhastair)

  1. halter
    Níl ann ach each gan adhastar. ― He is wayward. (literally, “He is a horse without a halter.”)

Declension

Declension of adhastar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative adhastar adhastair
vocative a adhastair a adhastara
genitive adhastair adhastar
dative adhastar adhastair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-adhastar na hadhastair
genitive an adhastair na n-adhastar
dative leis an adhastar
don adhastar 		leis na hadhastair

Derived terms

  • adhastar traenála m (“lunge line”)
  • adhastrach (“halter-like; trailing, rambling; tattered; dilatory”, adjective)
  • ar adhastar (“haltered, led”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhastar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhastar n-adhastar hadhastar t-adhastar

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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