airéal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airél (“couch, bed”).

Noun

airéal f (genitive singular airéile, nominative plural airéala)

1. (literary) bed, couch

Declension

Declension of airéal

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative airéal airéala Vocative a airéal a airéala Genitive airéile airéal Dative airéal airéala

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an airéal na hairéala Genitive na hairéile na n-airéal Dative leis an airéal don airéal leis na hairéala

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language