aiféaltas

Irish

Alternative forms

• aithmhéaltas (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish aithméltas (compare aithméla f (“shame, discomfiture; regret, remorse; grief”), modern aiféala).

Noun

aiféaltas m (genitive singular aiféaltais)

1. shame, embarrassment
2. regret

Declension

Declension of aiféaltas (first declension, no plural)

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

Related terms

• aiféalach (“regretful, sorrowful; shamefaced, shy”, adjective)
• aiféala m (“regret, remorse; shame, shamefacedness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aiféaltas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aiféaltas	n-aiféaltas	haiféaltas	t-aiféaltas

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) “aiféaltas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithméltas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aiféaltas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “aiféaltas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025