Irish

Noun

aiteann m ‎(genitive singular aitinn, nominative plural aitinn) or
aiteann f ‎(genitive singular aitinne)

1. furze, gorse, whin
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 31:

     tā æcn̥̄ ə fās sə ŋort šə.

     conventional orthography: Tá aiteann ag fás sa ngort seo.

     Furze is growing in this field.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 31:

     dā jēŕ n̥ køln̄, tā æcn̥̄ xō ǵēŕ leš.

     conventional orthography: Dá ghéar an cuileann, tá aiteann ag chomh géar leis.

     However sharp the holly is, furze is just as sharp.

Declension

Declension as masculine

Declension as feminine

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “aittenn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*axto-, *axtīno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1
• "aiteann" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• aitionn

Etymology

From Old Irish aiten m ‎(“furze, gorse”), from Proto-Celtic *axtīnos ‎(“furze, gorse”) (compare Welsh eithin), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱstis (compare Lithuanian akstìs ‎(“thorn”), Russian ость ‎(ostʹ, “awn, bristle”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ‎(“sharp”).

Noun

aiteann m ‎(genitive singular aitinn, plural aitinn)

1. juniper

Mutation

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• “aittenn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.