urnaí

Irish

Alternative forms

• urnaighe

Etymology

From Old Irish airnigde (“praying; prayer”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /uːɾˠˈn̪ˠiː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈuːɾˠn̪ˠiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠn̪ˠi/

Noun

urnaí m (genitive singular urnaí, nominative plural urnaithe)

1. (act of) praying
2. prayer

Declension

Declension of urnaí (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urnaí urnaithe vocative a urnaí a urnaithe genitive urnaí urnaithe dative urnaí urnaithe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-urnaí na hurnaithe genitive an urnaí na n-urnaithe dative leis an urnaí don urnaí leis na hurnaithe

Derived terms

• leabhar urnaí m (“prayer-book”)
• urnaí na maidine m (“morning prayer”)
• stól urnaí m (“prie-dieu”)
• urnaitheach (“prayerful, devout”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of urnaí

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urnaí	n-urnaí	hurnaí	t-urnaí

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