Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish astrolaige (“astrologer; wizard, sorceror”), a borrowing from Latin astrologus, from Ancient Greek ἀστρολόγος (astrológos, “astronomer, astrologer”).
Noun
astralaí m (genitive singular astralaí, nominative plural astralaithe)
- astrologer
Declension
Declension of astralaí (fourth declension)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of astralaí
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| astralaí
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n-astralaí
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hastralaí
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “astralaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “astrolaic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “astrologer”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “astralaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm