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gaofaireacht

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gáethmairecht.[2] By surface analysis, gaofar +‎ -acht.

Noun

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gaofaireacht f (genitive singular gaofaireachta)

  1. flatulence
  2. windiness

Declension

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Declension of gaofaireacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative gaofaireacht
vocative a ghaofaireacht
genitive gaofaireachta
dative gaofaireacht
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an ghaofaireacht
genitive na gaofaireachta
dative leis an ngaofaireacht
don ghaofaireacht

Mutation

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Mutated forms of gaofaireacht
radical lenition eclipsis
gaofaireacht ghaofaireacht ngaofaireacht

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

References

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  1. ^ “gaofaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethmairecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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