agairt

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From agair +‎ -t.

Noun

agairt f (genitive singular agartha)

  1. verbal noun of agair (“plead, entreat; avenge, retribute; sue”)
  2. plea
  3. vengeance, retribution
    Synonym: díoltas

Declension

Declension of agairt (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative agairt
vocative a agairt
genitive agartha
dative agairt
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an agairt
genitive na hagartha
dative leis an agairt
don agairt

Mutation

Mutated forms of agairt
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
agairt n-agairt hagairt 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

Verbal noun of agair, itself from Old Irish ad·gair.

Pronunciation

  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈakərˠt̪/, [ˈakəʈ][1]

Noun

agairt m (genitive singular agairt, no plural)

  1. Verbal noun of agair
  2. claim
  3. pleading
  4. craving
    Tha i ag agairt orm. ― She craves me.
  5. accusing, blaming
  6. prosecute
    Tha e 'g agairt an dìonadair. ― He's prosecuting the defendant.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Jenny Ladefoged, Peter Ladefoged, Alice Turk, Kevin Hind (5 February 1996) “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
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