adhairt

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhart

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish adart.

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Noun

adhairt f (genitive singular adhairte, nominative plural adhairteanna)

1. bolster, pillow

   Synonym: ceannadhairt

Declension

Declension of adhairt (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative adhairt adhairteanna vocative a adhairt a adhairteanna genitive adhairte adhairteanna dative adhairt adhairteanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an adhairt na hadhairteanna genitive na hadhairte na n-adhairteanna dative leis an adhairt don adhairt leis na hadhairteanna

Derived terms

• adhairt feamainne (“heap of seaweed”)
• adhairt seamanna (“riveting bolster”)
• bás le hadhairt (“death in bed, death of natural causes”)

 

Noun

adhairt m

1. inflection of adhart:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhairt

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhairt	n-adhairt	hadhairt	not applicable

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

adhairt m sg

1. genitive singular of adhart

Mutation

Mutation of adhairt

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhairt	n-adhairt	h-adhairt	t-adhairt

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