aimride

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aimbrite (“barrenness, childlessness”).

Noun

aimride f (genitive singular aimride)

1. barrenness, sterility

Declension

Declension of aimride (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aimride vocative a aimride genitive aimride dative aimride forms with the definite article case singular nominative an aimride genitive na haimride dative leis an aimride don aimride

Related terms

• aimridigh (“make barren, sterilize, fix”, transitive verb)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

aimride

1. inflection of aimrid (“barren, sterile”):
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
   3. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of aimride

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aimride	n-aimride	haimride	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

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aimride”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “aimride”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

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