uathadh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úathad, óthad, úaithed (“a small number, a few; the singular number”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtos.

Noun

uathadh m (genitive singular uathaidh)

1. (literary) a small number, a few
2. Alternative form of uatha

Declension

Declension of uathadh

First declension

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

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

Derived terms

• in uathadh (“alone”)

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uathadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathad, óthad, úaithed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language