aimhriarach
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish aimríarach (“disobedient, rebellious”). By surface analysis, aimhriar (“disobedience”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]aimhriarach (genitive singular masculine aimhriaraigh, genitive singular feminine aimhriaraí, plural aimhriaracha, comparative aimhriaraí)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | aimhriarach | aimhriarach | aimhriaracha | |
| vocative | aimhriaraigh | aimhriaracha | ||
| genitive | aimhriaraí | aimhriaracha | aimhriarach | |
| dative | aimhriarach | aimhriarach; aimhriaraigh (archaic) |
aimhriaracha | |
| Comparative | níos aimhriaraí | |||
| Superlative | is aimhriaraí | |||
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| aimhriarach | n-aimhriarach | haimhriarach | 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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimhriarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimríarach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language