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aistearach
aistearach
Irish
Adjective
aistearach (genitive singular masculine aistearaigh, genitive singular feminine aistearaí, plural aistearacha, comparative aistearaí)
- Alternative form of aistreach (“journeying, roving; restless, unsettled; out of the way, inconvenient; transitive”)
Declension
Declension of aistearach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | aistearach | aistearach¹ | aistearacha³ | |
| Vocative | aistearaigh¹ | aistearach¹ | aistearacha | |
| Genitive | aistearaigh¹ | aistearaí (obsolete) aistearaighe |
aistearacha | aistearach |
| Dative | aistearach² | aistearach¹ (archaic) aistearaigh¹ |
aistearacha³ | |
| Comparative | aistearaí (obsolete) aistearaighe |
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¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aistearach | n-aistearach | haistearach | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- "aistearach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.