adhairt

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhart

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish adart.

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Noun

adhairt f (genitive singular adhairte, nominative plural adhairteanna)

1. bolster, pillow

   Synonym: ceannadhairt

Declension

Declension of adhairt

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative adhairt adhairteanna Vocative a adhairt a adhairteanna Genitive adhairte adhairteanna Dative adhairt adhairteanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an adhairt na hadhairteanna Genitive na hadhairte na n-adhairteanna Dative leis an adhairt don adhairt leis na hadhairteanna

Derived terms

• adhairt feamainne (“heap of seaweed”)
• adhairt seamanna (“riveting bolster”)
• bás le hadhairt (“death in bed, death of natural causes”)

 

Noun

adhairt m

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

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhairt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhairt”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “adhairt”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

adhairt m sg

1. genitive singular of adhart

Mutation

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