éadach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)
- (countable) cloth
- Synonym: anairt
- (collective, nautical) sail
- (in the singular or in the plural) clothes, clothing
- Proverb: Den duine an t-éadach. ― Clothes make the man.
Declension
[edit]Declension of éadach
Derived terms
[edit]- baiséadach (“baize”)
- ciseán éadaigh (“clothes-basket”)
- éadach a dhéanamh (“make sail”)
- éadach altóra (“altar-cloth”)
- éadach baile (“homespun”)
- éadach boird
- éadach cinn (“jib, head-cloth”)
- éadach cláir
- éadach cnis (“underwear”)
- éadach cultacha (“suiting”)
- éadach leapa (“bedclothes”)
- éadach leapa
- éadach lín
- éadach na soithí (“tea towel”)
- éadach ola (“oil-cloth”)
- éadach róin (“haircloth”)
- éadach saic (“sackcloth”)
- éadach síoda (“silk cloth, silk fabric”)
- éadach soitheach (“dish-cloth”)
- éadach tábla (“table-cloth”)
- éadach tochta (“ticking”)
- éadach tráidire (“tray-cloth”)
- éadach tuáillí
- fo-éadach (“underclothing”)
- líne éadaigh (“clothes-line”)
- línéadach
- mionéadach (“haberdashery”)
- pionna éadaigh
- seoléadach (“sailcloth”)
- siopa éadaigh (“draper's shop”)
- taiséadach (“shroud, winding sheet”)
- tuáilléadach (“terry cloth”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
éadach | n-éadach | héadach | t-éadach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 étach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “éadach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 92
- “éadach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024