éadach

Irish

Alternative forms

• eudach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠəx/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠax/, /ˈeːd̪ˠa(h)/

Noun

éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)

1. (countable) cloth

   Synonym: anairt

2. (collective, nautical) sail
3. (uncountable) clothes, clothing

   Proverb: Den duine an t-éadach. ― Clothes make the man.

Declension

Declension of éadach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative éadach éadaí Vocative a éadaigh a éadaí Genitive éadaigh éadaí Dative éadach éadaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-éadach na héadaí Genitive an éadaigh na n-éadaí Dative leis an éadach don éadach leis na héadaí

Derived terms

• baiséadach (“baize”)
• ball éadaigh (“article of clothing”)
• ciseán éadaigh (“clothes-basket”)
• éadach a dhéanamh (“make sail”, verb)
• éadach a iompar (“carry sail”, verb)
• éadach altóra (“altar-cloth”)
• éadach baile (“homespun”)
• éadach ban (“ladies' wear”)
• éadach boird, éadach cláir, éadach tábla (“table-cloth”)
• éadach cinn (“jib, head-cloth”)
• éadach cnis (“underwear”)
• éadach cultacha (“suiting”)
• éadach fear (“men's wear”)
• éadach leapa (“bedclothes”)
• éadach lín, éadach saic (“sackcloth”)
• éadach na soithí (“tea towel”)
• éadach ola (“oil-cloth”)
• éadach páistí (“children's wear”)
• éadach róin (“haircloth”)
• éadach síoda (“silk cloth, silk fabric”)
• éadach soitheach (“dish-cloth”)
• éadach tochta (“ticking”)
• éadach tráidire (“tray-cloth”)
• éadach tuáillí, tuáilléadach (“terry cloth”)
• faoi iomlán éadaigh (“under full sail”)
• fo-éadach (“underclothing”)
• líne éadaigh (“clothes-line”)
• mionéadach (“haberdashery”)
• seoléadach (“sailcloth”)
• siopa éadaigh (“draper's shop”)
• taiséadach (“shroud, winding sheet”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
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

• 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
• “éadach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024