ar aoi

Irish

Alternative forms

• arae

Etymology

From Old Irish ar aí (“on account of, because of; as regards, in the matter of; for (the sake of)”).

Preposition

ar aoi (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

1. in regard to, on account of

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aoi”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 aí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language