aistire

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aistire (“doorkeeper in a monastery”), from Latin ostiārius (“porter, doorman”).

Noun

aistire m (genitive singular aistire, nominative plural aistirí)

1. (ecclesiastical) porter

Declension

Declension of aistire (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative aistire aistirí vocative a aistire a aistirí genitive aistire aistirí dative aistire aistirí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-aistire na haistirí genitive an aistire na n-aistirí dative leis an aistire don aistire leis na haistirí

Alternative forms

• aistreoir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

aistire f sg

1. genitive singular of aistear

Mutation

Mutated forms of aistire

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aistire	n-aistire	haistire	t-aistire

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