aer-ruathar

Irish

Etymology

From aer- (“air”) +‎ ruathar (“rush, onrush, onset, attack”).

Noun

aer-ruathar m (genitive singular aer-ruathair, nominative plural aer-ruathair)

1. (military) air raid, air strike

Declension

Declension of aer-ruathar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aer-ruathar aer-ruathair vocative a aer-ruathair a aer-ruathara genitive aer-ruathair aer-ruathar dative aer-ruathar aer-ruathair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aer-ruathar na haer-ruathair genitive an aer-ruathair na n-aer-ruathar dative leis an aer-ruathar don aer-ruathar leis na haer-ruathair

Mutation

Mutated forms of aer-ruathar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aer-ruathar	n-aer-ruathar	haer-ruathar	t-aer-ruathar

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) “aer-ruathar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aer-ruathar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “aer-ruathar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025