ainteastach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aintestach (“unreliable witness”), from ainteist (legal term used of a person not qualified to act as witness, literally “non-witness”), from teist (“witness”).

Noun

ainteastach m (genitive singular ainteastaigh, nominative plural ainteastaigh)

1. (law) false witness (a deceptive or misleading witness)

Declension

Declension of ainteastach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ainteastach ainteastaigh vocative a ainteastaigh a ainteastacha genitive ainteastaigh ainteastach dative ainteastach ainteastaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ainteastach na hainteastaigh genitive an ainteastaigh na n-ainteastach dative leis an ainteastach don ainteastach leis na hainteastaigh

Related terms

• fianaise bhréige (“false witness”) (deceptive public statements)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ainteastach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainteastach	n-ainteastach	hainteastach	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) “ainteastach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aintestach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language