ardrí

See also: ardri

Irish

Alternative forms

• áird-rí (superseded)
• airdrí, airdrígh

Etymology

From Middle Irish ardrí, reformed for transparency from Old Irish ardri, from ard (“high”) +‎ rí (“king”). By surface analysis, ard- +‎ rí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑːɾˠd̪ˠˈɾˠiː/

Noun

ardrí m (genitive singular ardrí, nominative plural ardríthe)

1. high king (chief king)

Declension

Declension of ardrí (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ardrí ardríthe vocative a ardrí a ardríthe genitive ardrí ardríthe dative ardrí ardríthe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ardrí na hardríthe genitive an ardrí na n-ardríthe dative leis an ardrí don ardrí leis na hardríthe

Related terms

• ardríocht (“high kingship”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ardrí

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ardrí	n-ardrí	hardrí	t-ardrí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 17
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “áird-rí”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 16
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ardrí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ardrí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “High+King”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024