gaothaire

Irish

Etymology

gaoth +‎ -aire

Noun

gaothaire m (genitive singular gaothaire, nominative plural gaothairí)

1. vent (opening through which gases, especially air, can pass)

Inflection

Declension of gaothaire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative gaothaire gaothairí vocative a ghaothaire a ghaothairí genitive gaothaire gaothairí dative gaothaire gaothairí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gaothaire na gaothairí genitive an ghaothaire na ngaothairí dative leis an ngaothaire don ghaothaire leis na gaothairí

Mutation

Mutated forms of gaothaire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gaothaire	ghaothaire	ngaothaire

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “gaothaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gaothaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 352
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gaothaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN