athraigh

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish aithrigid (to change, alter, move),[2] from Old Irish ad·eirrig (to repeat, reiterate; change),[3] from ath- + ar- + Proto-Celtic *regeti (whence also Old Irish at·reig, Irish éirigh), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (to straighten). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic atharraich and Manx arree.

Alternative forms

Verb

athraigh (present analytic athraíonn, future analytic athróidh, verbal noun athrú, past participle athraithe)

  1. (intransitive) change, vary
    Is mór atá sé athraithe ó chonaic mé go deireanach é.
    He has changed a lot since the last time I saw him.
    Tá an ghaoth athraithe. / D’athraigh an ghaoth.
    The wind has changed.
  2. (transitive) change, alter
    Bhí sé d’intinn aige a dhul go Meireacá, ach b’fhéidir gur athraigh sé a intinn.
    He was intending to go to America, but maybe he changed his mind.
  3. (ambitransitive) move
  4. (transitive, mathematics) reduce
Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

athraigh m

  1. genitive singular of athrach

Mutation

Mutated forms of athraigh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
athraigh n-athraigh hathraigh 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, § 130, page 50
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithrigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·eirrig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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