aintréan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aintrén (“very strong”), from trén (“strong”). By surface analysis, ain- +‎ tréan (“strong, powerful; intense, violent”).

Adjective

aintréan (genitive singular masculine aintréin, genitive singular feminine aintréine, plural aintréana, comparative aintreise)

1. violent; oppressive

Declension

Declension of aintréan

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	aintréan	aintréan	aintréana
vocative	aintréin		aintréana
genitive		aintréane	aintréana	aintréan
dative	aintréan	aintréan; aintréin (archaic)	aintréana
Comparative	níos aintreise
Superlative	is aintreise

Mutation

Mutated forms of aintréan

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