aimhréiteach

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈavʲɾʲəitʲa(x)/[1], /ˈãvʲɾʲəitʲa(x)/[2]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aimréi(d)tech (“contentiousness”), from aimréid (“contentious, quarrelsome, troublesome”).

Noun

aimhréiteach m (genitive singular aimhréitigh)

  1. (literary) discord
Declension
Declension of aimhréiteach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative aimhréiteach
vocative a aimhréitigh
genitive aimhréitigh
dative aimhréiteach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-aimhréiteach
genitive an aimhréitigh
dative leis an aimhréiteach
don aimhréiteach
Alternative forms
  • aimhréidhteach

Etymology 2

Adjective

aimhréiteach (genitive singular masculine aimhréitigh, genitive singular feminine aimhréití, plural aimhréiteacha, comparative aimhréití)

  1. alternative form of aimhréidh (“entangled”)
Declension
Declension of aimhréidheach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative aimhréidheach aimhréidheach aimhréidheacha
vocative aimhréidhigh aimhréidheacha
genitive aimhréidhí aimhréidheacha aimhréidheach
dative aimhréidheach aimhréidheach;
aimhréidhigh (archaic) 		aimhréidheacha
Comparative níos aimhréidhí
Superlative is aimhréidhí

Mutation

Mutated forms of aimhréiteach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aimhréiteach n-aimhréiteach haimhréiteach not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 171, page 64
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 324, page 113

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