aimiréal

Irish

Etymology

From Old French amirail, amiral, from Arabic أَمِير الْبَحْر (ʔamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”).

Noun

aimiréal m (genitive singular aimiréil, nominative plural aimiréil)

1. admiral (naval officer of high rank, butterfly)

Declension

Declension of aimiréal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aimiréal aimiréil Vocative a aimiréil a aimiréala Genitive aimiréil aimiréal Dative aimiréal aimiréil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aimiréal na haimiréil Genitive an aimiréil na n-aimiréal Dative leis an aimiréal don aimiréal leis na haimiréil

Derived terms

• aimiréalacht f (“admiralty”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aimiréal	n-aimiréal	haimiréal	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimiréal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN