éirí
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish éirge, verbal noun of at·reig and éirgid (“rises, stands up; arises, mounts upwards, ascends, soars; grows up, matures; rises in hostility, takes up arms, rebels; attacks; starts up; arises and sets forth, proceeds”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
éirí m (genitive singular éirí)
- verbal noun of éirigh
- rising, rise
- éirí (na) gealaí ― moonrise
- éirí (na) gréine ― sunrise
- (physiology) erection
Declension
Declension of éirí
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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
Verb
éirí
- present subjunctive of éirigh
- go n-éirí an bóthar leat
- May the journey be successful for you (popularly mistranslated as "May the road rise to meet you"), bon voyage
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| éirí | n-éirí | héirí | t-éirí |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 252
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “éirġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 284
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éirí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “éirí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “éirí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- “éirí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy