aoghaire

Irish

Noun

aoghaire m (genitive singular aoghaire, nominative plural aoghairí)

  1. superseded spelling of aoire (“shepherd; pastor; (parliamentary) whip”)

Declension

Declension of aoghaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative aoghaire aoghairí
vocative a aoghaire a aoghairí
genitive aoghaire aoghairí
dative aoghaire aoghairí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-aoghaire na haoghairí
genitive an aoghaire na n-aoghairí
dative leis an aoghaire
don aoghaire 		leis na haoghairí

Mutation

Mutated forms of aoghaire
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aoghaire n-aoghaire haoghaire t-aoghaire

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

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aoḋaire, aoġaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 32

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish áegaire, from Old Irish augaire.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɯː.ɪɾʲə/

Noun

aoghaire m (genitive singular aoghaire, plural aoghairean)

  1. herdsman, pastor, shepherd
  2. pastor (ecclesiastical)

Derived terms

  • aoghaireil (“pastoral, pertaining to a herdsman/pastor/shepherd”)
  • aoghaireach (“pastoral, pertaining to a herdsman/pastor/shepherd”)

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oegaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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