aistear
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish astar (“journey, travel”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
aistear m or f (genitive singular aistir or aistire, nominative plural aistir or aistreacha)
- journey
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31:
- sl̄ān lȧt, gə n-aiŕī t-æšcŕ̥ lȧt!
- conventional orthography: Slán leat, go n-éirí t’aistir leat!
- Goodbye, may your journey be successful!
- conventional orthography: Slán leat, go n-éirí t’aistir leat!
- sl̄ān lȧt, gə n-aiŕī t-æšcŕ̥ lȧt!
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31:
- ḱē n mĭȧs tā agət eŕ mə xomrādə æšcŕ̥ə [oder šūl]?
- conventional orthography: Cén meas atá agat ar mo chomráda aistire [or siúil]?
- What do you think of my traveling companion?
- conventional orthography: Cén meas atá agat ar mo chomráda aistire [or siúil]?
- ḱē n mĭȧs tā agət eŕ mə xomrādə æšcŕ̥ə [oder šūl]?
- roundabout way; inconvenience
Declension
- As masculine noun
Declension of aistear
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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- Alternative plural: aistreacha
- As feminine noun
Declension of aistear
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- aistreach (“journeying, roving; restless, unsettled; out of the way, inconvenient; transitive”, adjective)
- aistreán m (“out-of-the-way place; inconvenience”)
- neamh-aistear m (“want of occupation, inactivity, idleness; thoughtlessness; mischief”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aistear | n-aistear | haistear | t-aistear |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aistear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “astar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aistear”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “aistear”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024