uatha

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish úathad (“a small number, a few; the singular number”),[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtos.

Adjective

uatha (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) singular
Coordinate terms

Noun

uatha m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uathaí)

  1. (grammar) singular
Declension
Declension of uatha (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative uatha uathaí
vocative a uatha a uathaí
genitive uatha uathaí
dative uatha uathaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-uatha na huathaí
genitive an uatha na n-uathaí
dative leis an uatha
don uatha 		leis na huathaí
Coordinate terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

uatha m

  1. inflection of uath:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Pronoun

uatha (emphatic uathasan)

  1. superseded spelling of uathu (“from them”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uatha
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uatha n-uatha huatha 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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathad, óthad, úaithed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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