uireasa

Irish

Alternative forms

• uireasbhaidh (superseded)
• uireaspa (Munster)

Etymology

From Old Irish airesbaid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪɾʲəsˠə/

Noun

uireasa f (genitive singular uireasa)

1. lack, want, absence, deficiency

Declension

Declension of uireasa (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative uireasa vocative a uireasa genitive uireasa dative uireasa forms with the definite article case singular nominative an uireasa genitive na huireasa dative leis an uireasa don uireasa

Derived terms

• uireasa cuimhne (“forgetfullness”)
• uireasach (“lacking, wanting; deficient, defective”)

Related terms

• easpa

Mutation

Mutated forms of uireasa

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