áras

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aras"

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
áras n-áras háras t-áras
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “áras”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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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