aisiléir

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

aisiléir m (genitive singular aisiléara, nominative plural aisiléirí)

1. trickster; twister

Declension

Declension of aisiléir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aisiléir aisiléirí vocative a aisiléir a aisiléirí genitive aisiléara aisiléirí dative aisiléir aisiléirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aisiléir na haisiléirí genitive an aisiléara na n-aisiléirí dative leis an aisiléir don aisiléir leis na haisiléirí

Derived terms

• aisiléireacht f (“trickery; chicanery”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aisiléir

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aisiléir	n-aisiléir	haisiléir	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) “aisiléir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN