uathadh

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

uathadh m (genitive singular uathaidh)

1. (literary) a small number, a few
2. Alternative form of uatha

Declension

Declension of uathadh (first declension, no plural)

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

Derived terms

• in uathadh (“alone”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uathadh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uathadh	n-uathadh	huathadh	t-uathadh

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) “uathadh”, 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