uirrí

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airrí (“tributary king, chieftain; viceroy, governor”), from rí (“king”).

Noun

uirrí m (genitive singular uirrí, nominative plural uirrithe)

1. (history) tributary king

Declension

Declension of uirrí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative uirrí uirrithe Vocative a uirrí a uirrithe Genitive uirrí uirrithe Dative uirrí uirrithe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uirrí na huirrithe Genitive an uirrí na n-uirrithe Dative leis an uirrí don uirrí leis na huirrithe

Mutation

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

References

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