airéal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airél (“couch, bed”).

Noun

airéal f (genitive singular airéile, nominative plural airéala)

1. (literary) bed, couch

Declension

Declension of airéal (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative airéal airéala vocative a airéal a airéala genitive airéile airéal dative airéal airéala forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an airéal na hairéala genitive na hairéile na n-airéal dative leis an airéal don airéal leis na hairéala

Mutation

Mutated forms of airéal

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