aimhréiteach

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈavʲɾʲəi̯tʲa(x)/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aimréi(d)tech (“contentiousness”), from aimréid (“contentious, quarrelsome, troublesome”).

Noun

aimhréiteach m (genitive singular aimhréitigh)

1. (literary) discord

Declension

Declension of aimhréiteach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aimhréiteach Vocative a aimhréitigh Genitive aimhréitigh Dative aimhréiteach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-aimhréiteach Genitive an aimhréitigh Dative leis an aimhréiteach don aimhréiteach

Alternative forms

• aimhréidhteach

Etymology 2

Adjective

aimhréiteach (genitive singular masculine aimhréitigh, genitive singular feminine aimhréití, plural aimhréiteacha, comparative aimhréití)

1. Alternative form of aimhréidh (“entangled; dishevelled; involved, intricate; uneven, difficult”)

Declension

Declension of aimhréidheach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
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

Irish mutation
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.

Further reading

• 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