aimhréiteach
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Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish aimréi(d)tech (“contentiousness”), from aimréid (“contentious, quarrelsome, troublesome”).
Noun
[edit]aimhréiteach m (genitive singular aimhréitigh)
Declension
[edit]Declension of aimhréiteach
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aimhréiteach (genitive singular masculine aimhréitigh, genitive singular feminine aimhréití, plural aimhréiteacha, comparative aimhréití)
- Alternative form of aimhréidh (“entangled”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of aimhréidheach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | aimhréidheach | aimhréidheach | aimhréidheacha | |
Vocative | aimhréidhigh | aimhréidheacha | ||
Genitive | aimhréidhí | aimhréidheacha | aimhréidheach | |
Dative | aimhréidheach | aimhréidheach; aimhréidhigh (archaic) |
aimhréidheacha | |
Comparative | níos aimhréidhí | |||
Superlative | is aimhréidhí |
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aimhréiteach | n-aimhréiteach | haimhréiteach | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 171, page 64
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 324, page 113
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimhréiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimréi(d)tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language