oiriseamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• airiseamh

Etymology

From Old Irish airisem (“act of resting, remaining, stopping; delay; act of desisting from, stopping; abiding by”), verbal noun of ar·sissedar (“stays, stands fast, rests, remains; halts, delays; endures, persists”). By surface analysis, oiris +‎ -amh.

Noun

oiriseamh m (genitive singular oirisimh)

1. verbal noun of oiris (“stay, stop; wait, delay”)
2. stay, stop; wait, delay

Declension

Declension of oiriseamh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative oiriseamh vocative a oirisimh genitive oirisimh dative oiriseamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-oiriseamh genitive an oirisimh dative leis an oiriseamh don oiriseamh

Mutation

Mutated forms of oiriseamh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oiriseamh	n-oiriseamh	hoiriseamh	t-oiriseamh

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