oideachas

Irish

Etymology

From oide (teacher, tutor) +‎ -achas.

Pronunciation

Noun

oideachas m (genitive singular oideachais)

  1. (dated) advice, instruction, teaching
  2. education

Declension

Declension of oideachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative oideachas
vocative a oideachais
genitive oideachais
dative oideachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-oideachas
genitive an oideachais
dative leis an oideachas
don oideachas

Derived terms

  • Aireacht an Oideachais f (the Board of Education)
  • ardoideachas m (higher education)
  • bunoideachas m (primary education)
  • comhoideachas m (co-education)
  • corpoideachas m (physical education)
  • gairmoideachas m (vocational education)
  • gan oideachas (uneducated)
  • meánoideachas m (secondary education)
  • oideachas gairmiúil m (vocational education)
  • oideachas leantach m (continuing education)
  • oideachas réamhscoile m (pre-school education)
  • oideachasóir m (educationalist, educationist)
  • oideachasúil (educational, adjective)
  • Roinn Oideachais f (Department of Education)
  • saoroideachas m (free education)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oideachas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oideachas n-oideachas hoideachas t-oideachas

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 82

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