aerphost

Irish

Etymology

From aer- (“air, aero-”) +‎ post (“mail, post”).

Noun

aerphost m (genitive singular aerphoist)

1. air-mail

Declension

Declension of aerphost (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aerphost vocative a aerphoist genitive aerphoist dative aerphost forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-aerphost genitive an aerphoist dative leis an aerphost don aerphost

Mutation

Mutated forms of aerphost

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aerphost	n-aerphost	haerphost	t-aerphost

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