aireamh

See also: áireamh, àireamh, and Àireamh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish oireamh, from Old Irish airem (“ploughman, tiller”).

Noun

aireamh m (genitive singular airimh or aireamhan, nominative plural airimh or aireamhain)

1. (literary) ploughman

Declension

Standard:

Declension of aireamh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aireamh airimh vocative a airimh a aireamha genitive airimh aireamh dative aireamh airimh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aireamh na hairimh genitive an airimh na n-aireamh dative leis an aireamh don aireamh leis na hairimh

Alternative:

Declension of aireamh (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aireamh aireamhain vocative a aireamh a aireamhain genitive aireamhan aireamhan dative aireamh aireamhain (archaic, dialectal) aireamhain forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aireamh na haireamhain genitive an aireamhan na n-aireamhan dative leis an aireamh leis an aireamhain (archaic, dialectal) don aireamh don aireamhain (archaic, dialectal) leis na haireamhain

Mutation

Mutated forms of aireamh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aireamh	n-aireamh	haireamh	t-aireamh

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