aimhréidh
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Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Irish aimréid (“rough, uneven, entangled place; contentiousness, disturbance”), aimréide (“roughness, unevenness; dissension, disagreement, quarrel”).
Noun[edit]
aimhréidh f (genitive singular aimhréidhe)
Declension[edit]
Declension of aimhréidh
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Alternative forms[edit]
- aimhréidhe f
- aimhréidheas m
- aimhréití f
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Irish aimréid (“rough, uneven, entangled; contentious, quarrelsome, troublesome”).
Adjective[edit]
aimhréidh (genitive singular masculine aimhréidh, genitive singular feminine aimhréidhe, plural aimhréidhe, comparative aimhréidhe)
- entangled; dishevelled (of thread, hair, etc.)
- involved, intricate (of question, statement, etc.)
- uneven, difficult (of terrain)
Declension[edit]
Declension of aimhréidh
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | aimhréidh | aimhréidh | aimhréidhe | |
Vocative | aimhréidh | aimhréidhe | ||
Genitive | aimhréidhe | aimhréidhe | aimhréidh | |
Dative | aimhréidh | aimhréidh | aimhréidhe | |
Comparative | níos aimhréidhe | |||
Superlative | is aimhréidhe |
Alternative forms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aimhréidh | n-aimhréidh | haimhréidh | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimhréidh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimréid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimréide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References[edit]
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 64