aiféala
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish aithméla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈafʲeːlˠə/
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Noun
aiféala m (genitive singular aiféala)
- regret, remorse
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 21:
- ńīl orm̥ ax ȧfēr fȳ n æmšŕ̥, ə tā kȧlc am.
- conventional orthography: Níl orm ach aiféala faoin aimsir atá cailte agam.
- I regret only the time I’ve lost.
- conventional orthography: Níl orm ach aiféala faoin aimsir atá cailte agam.
- ńīl orm̥ ax ȧfēr fȳ n æmšŕ̥, ə tā kȧlc am.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 21:
- tā ȧfēr rī wōr orm̥, n̄ax vēdĭm n̥ ceŕəvīš šin ə jīnə ʒic.
- conventional orthography: Tá aiféala rímhór orm nach bhféadaim an tseirbhís sin a dhéanamh dhuit.
- I greatly regret that I can’t perform that service for you.
- conventional orthography: Tá aiféala rímhór orm nach bhféadaim an tseirbhís sin a dhéanamh dhuit.
- tā ȧfēr rī wōr orm̥, n̄ax vēdĭm n̥ ceŕəvīš šin ə jīnə ʒic.
- shame, shamefacedness
Declension
Declension of aiféala
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Related terms
- aiféaltas m (“shame, embarrassment; regret”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aiféala | n-aiféala | haiféala | t-aiféala |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aiféala”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithméla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 256
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aiféala”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “aiféala”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024