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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)
- (countable) cloth
- Synonym: anairt
- (collective, nautical) sail
- (in the singular or in the plural) clothes, clothing
- Proverb: Den duine an t-éadach. ― Clothes make the man.
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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éadach
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n-éadach
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héadach
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t-éadach
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 étach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “éadach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 92
- “éadach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024