éad

See also: ead, EAD, -éad, and 'ead

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ét, from Proto-Celtic *yantus, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-; cognate with Scottish Gaelic eud.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /iːɑ̯d̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /eːd̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /eːd̪ˠ/, [ɛə̯d̪ˠ]

Noun

éad m (genitive singular éada)

1. jealousy; envy, emulation (with ag or ar plus the person feeling jealous and le or chuig plus the person being felt jealous of or towards)

   Tá éad agam leat.

   I am jealous of you.

   Bhí éad air chuici.

   He was jealous towards her.

Declension

Declension of éad

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative éad Vocative a éad Genitive éada Dative éad

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-éad Genitive an éada Dative leis an éad don éad

Derived terms

• éadmhar (“jealous”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éad	n-éad	héad	t-éad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “éad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 273
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN