aimhriar

Irish

Alternative forms

• aimhréir
• ainriar

Etymology

From Old Irish aimríar (“disobedience, unsubmissiveness”), negated form of ríar (“at the will of”).

Noun

aimhriar f (genitive singular aimhréire)

1. disobedience, disaffection
2. incongruity, repugnance
3. (philosophy) disorder

   Synonym: mí-ordaigh

Declension

Declension of aimhriar (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aimhriar vocative a aimhriar genitive aimhréire dative aimhriar forms with the definite article case singular nominative an aimhriar genitive na haimhréire dative leis an aimhriar don aimhriar

Derived terms

• aimhréireach (“repugnant”, adjective)
• aimhriarach (“disobedient”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aimhriar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aimhriar	n-aimhriar	haimhriar	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimhriar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimríar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language