éimír

See also: éimir

Irish

Etymology

From Old French emir, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Noun

éimír m (genitive singular éimír, nominative plural éimírí)

1. emir

Declension

Declension of éimír (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative éimír éimírí vocative a éimír a éimírí genitive éimír éimírí dative éimír éimírí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-éimír na héimírí genitive an éimír na n-éimírí dative leis an éimír don éimír leis na héimírí

Derived terms

• éimíríocht f (“emirate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of éimír

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éimír	n-éimír	héimír	t-éimír

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) “éimír”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “éimír”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm