athadh

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aithed (“elopement, flight”).

Noun

athadh m (genitive singular athaidh, nominative plural athaidh)

1. (literary) elopement

Declension

Declension of athadh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative athadh athaidh vocative a athaidh a athadha genitive athaidh athadh dative athadh athaidh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-athadh na hathaidh genitive an athaidh na n-athadh dative leis an athadh don athadh leis na hathaidh

Alternative forms

• aitheadh

Etymology 2

Noun

athadh f sg

1. genitive singular of athaidh (“space of time”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of athadh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
athadh	n-athadh	hathadh	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “athadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aithed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language