portaireacht
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From port (“tune”) + -aire + -acht
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]portaireacht f (genitive singular portaireachta)
- lilting (type of lively singing)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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portaireacht | phortaireacht | bportaireacht |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “portaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “portaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “portaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN