uatha

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish úathad, óthad, úaithed (“a small number, a few; the singular number”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtos.

Adjective

uatha (invariable)

1. (grammar) singular

Coordinate terms

• iolra (“plural”)

Noun

uatha m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uathaí)

1. (grammar) singular

Declension

Declension of uatha (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uatha uathaí vocative a uatha a uathaí genitive uatha uathaí dative uatha uathaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uatha na huathaí genitive an uatha na n-uathaí dative leis an uatha don uatha leis na huathaí

Coordinate terms

• iolra (“plural”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

uatha m

1. inflection of uath:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Pronoun

uatha (emphatic uathasan)

1. Superseded spelling of uathu (“from them”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of uatha

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uatha	n-uatha	huatha	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) “uatha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathad, óthad, úaithed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “uaṫa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 772