aimrid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aimbrit (barren, childless).

Adjective

aimrid (genitive singular masculine aimrid, genitive singular feminine aimride, plural aimride, comparative aimride)

  1. sterile, barren (of person or animal)

Declension

Declension of aimrid
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative aimrid aimrid aimride
vocative aimrid aimride
genitive aimride aimride aimrid
dative aimrid aimrid;
aimrid (archaic)
aimride
Comparative níos aimride
Superlative is aimride

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • aimridigh (make barren, sterilize, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aimrid
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aimrid n-aimrid haimrid 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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aimbrit (barren, childless).

Adjective

aimrid (genitive singular feminine aimride, nominative plural aimride, comparative aimride)

  1. sterile
  2. barren
  3. childless
  4. infertile

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “aimrid”, 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), “aimbrit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language