áthas

See also: Athas

Irish

From Old Irish áithes, áthas (“sharpness; joy”).^[1] Compare aiteann (“gorse, juniper”), which could be from the same root.^[2]

áthas m (genitive singular áthais)

joy, gladness
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
  Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.
  They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.
Alternative form of áitheas (“success, victory”)

Used with bí + the preposition ar (“on”) to say "to be glad"; thus:
tá áthas orm ― I am glad

tá áthas ar an mbuachaill ― the boy is glad

Declension of áthas (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an t-áthas
genitive	an áthais
dative	leis an áthas don áthas

Mutated forms of *áthas*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áthas	n-áthas	háthas	t-áthas

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áithes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “aitionn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 6