áthas
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish áithes, áthas (“sharpness, keenness; successful feat, exploit, victory; joy”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
áthas m (genitive singular áthais)
- joy, gladness
- Tá áthas ar an mbuachaill. ― The boy is glad.
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.
- They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.
- Alternative form of áitheas (“success, victory”)
Usage notes
Used with the preposition ar (“on”) to indicate "being glad" (see usage example above).
Declension
Declension of áthas
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- áthas(t)úil (“glad, joyful”, adjective)
Related terms
- áthasach (“glad, joyful; successful, victorious”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| áthas | n-áthas | háthas | t-áthas |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áithes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áthas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN