áras

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aras"

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish árus (“abode, dwelling, residence”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

áras m (genitive singular árais, nominative plural árais)

  1. habitation, abode
  2. house, building
  3. vessel, container, dish

Declension

Declension of áras (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative áras árais
vocative a árais a árasa
genitive árais áras
dative áras árais
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-áras na hárais
genitive an árais na n-áras
dative leis an áras
don áras 		leis na hárais

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of áras
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
áras n-áras háras t-áras

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “áras”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “árus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 129, page 50

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