Éireannach

See also: Èireannach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Érennach, equivalent to Éireann (“Ireland”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠa(h)/

Adjective

Éireannach (genitive singular masculine Éireannaigh, genitive singular feminine Éireannaí, plural Éireannacha, comparative Éireannaí)

1. Irish (nationality, ethnicity, language, culture, etc.)

Declension

Declension of Éireannach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	Éireannach	Éireannach	Éireannacha
vocative	Éireannaigh		Éireannacha
genitive		Éireannaí	Éireannacha	Éireannach
dative	Éireannach	Éireannach; Éireannaigh (archaic)	Éireannacha
Comparative	níos Éireannaí
Superlative	is Éireannaí

Derived terms

• Angla-Éireannach (“Anglo-Irish”, adjective)
• Éireannachas m (“Irish characteristic(s)”)
• iúr Éireannach m (“Irish, Florence Court, yew”)

 

Noun

Éireannach m (genitive singular Éireannaigh, nominative plural Éireannaigh)

1. An Irish person, male or female

Usage notes

• Used for either male or female persons, but declined as a first-declension masculine noun either way.

Declension

Declension of Éireannach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Éireannach Éireannaigh vocative a Éireannaigh a Éireannacha genitive Éireannaigh Éireannach dative Éireannach Éireannaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tÉireannach na hÉireannaigh genitive an Éireannaigh na nÉireannach dative leis an Éireannach don Éireannach leis na hÉireannaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of Éireannach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Éireannach	nÉireannach	hÉireannach	tÉireannach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Éireannach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Érennach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Éireannach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 95
• “Éireannach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

Éireannach

1. Dated form of Èireannach.

Noun

Éireannach m (genitive singular Éireannaich, plural Éireannaich)

1. Dated form of Èireannach.