pártaí

See also: partai and pârțâi

Irish

Alternative forms

• pártaidhe (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pˠɑːɾˠˈt̪ˠiː/

Noun

pártaí m (genitive singular pártaí, nominative plural pártaithe)

1. Munster form of páirtí
2. (Munster) fellow (person with common characteristics) (followed by the genitive)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 197:

     D’innis sé dhi gach a thárlaigh dó ó thúis go deireadh, mar ní raibh fhios aige ná gur pártaidhe buachalla a bhí ag cainnt leis.

     He told her everything that had happened to him from start to finish, because he didn’t know that it wasn’t a fellow boy (literally ‘a partner of a boy’) who was talking to him.

Declension

Declension of pártaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative pártaí pártaithe Vocative a phártaí a phártaithe Genitive pártaí pártaithe Dative pártaí pártaithe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an pártaí na pártaithe Genitive an phártaí na bpártaithe Dative leis an bpártaí don phártaí leis na pártaithe

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pártaí	phártaí	bpártaí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pártaiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 539