uirrí

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airrí (“tributary king, chieftain; viceroy, governor”), from rí (“king”).

Noun

uirrí m (genitive singular uirrí, nominative plural uirrithe)

1. (history) tributary king

Declension

Declension of uirrí (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uirrí uirrithe vocative a uirrí a uirrithe genitive uirrí uirrithe dative uirrí uirrithe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uirrí na huirrithe genitive an uirrí na n-uirrithe dative leis an uirrí don uirrí leis na huirrithe

Mutation

Mutated forms of uirrí

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uirrí	n-uirrí	huirrí	t-uirrí

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