oiriseamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• airiseamh

Etymology

From Old Irish airisem (“act of resting, remaining, stopping; delay; act of desisting from, stopping; abiding by”), verbal noun of ar·sissedar (“stays, stands fast, rests, remains; halts, delays; endures, persists”). By surface analysis, oiris +‎ -amh.

Noun

oiriseamh m (genitive singular oirisimh)

1. verbal noun of oiris (“stay, stop; wait, delay”)
2. stay, stop; wait, delay

Declension

Declension of oiriseamh

First declension

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

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

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oiriseamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airisem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language