éadach

Irish

Alternative forms

• eudach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈia̯d̪ˠəx/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠa(x)/

Noun

éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)

1. (countable) cloth

   Synonym: anairt

2. (collective, nautical) sail
3. (in the singular or in the plural) clothes, clothing

   Proverb: Den duine an t-éadach. ― Clothes make the man.

Declension

Declension of éadach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative éadach éadaí vocative a éadaigh a éadaí genitive éadaigh éadaí dative éadach éadaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-éadach na héadaí genitive an éadaigh na n-éadaí dative leis an éadach don éadach leis na héadaí

Derived terms

• ciseán éadaigh (“clothes-basket”)
• éadach a dhéanamh (“make sail”)
• éadach altóra (“altar-cloth”)
• éadach baile (“homespun”)
• éadach boird
• éadach cinn (“jib, head-cloth”)
• éadach cláir
• éadach cnis (“underwear”)
• éadach cultacha (“suiting”)
• éadach leapa
• éadach leapa (“bedclothes”)
• éadach lín
• éadach na soithí (“tea towel”)
• éadach ola (“oil-cloth”)
• éadach róin (“haircloth”)
• éadach saic (“sackcloth”)
• éadach síoda (“silk cloth, silk fabric”)
• éadach soitheach (“dish-cloth”)
• éadach tábla (“table-cloth”)
• éadach tochta (“ticking”)
• éadach tráidire (“tray-cloth”)
• éadach tuáillí
• fo-éadach (“underclothing”)
• líne éadaigh (“clothes-line”)
• línéadach
• mionéadach (“haberdashery”)
• pionna éadaigh
• seoléadach (“sailcloth”)
• siopa éadaigh (“draper's shop”)
• taiséadach (“shroud, winding sheet”)
• tuáilléadach (“terry cloth”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of éadach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éadach	n-éadach	héadach	t-éadach

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) “éadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 étach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “éadach”, 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 92
• “éadach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024