éirí

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See also: eiri, Eiri, and EIRI

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish éirge (verbal noun of éirgid (“to rise”)), from Old Irish éirge (verbal noun of at·reig (“to rise”)).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

éirí m (genitive singular éirí)

  1. verbal noun of éirigh
  2. rising, rise
    éirí (na) gealaí ― moonrise
    éirí (na) gréine ― sunrise
  3. (physiology) erection

Declension

Declension of éirí (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative éirí
vocative a éirí
genitive éirí
dative éirí
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-éirí
genitive an éirí
dative leis an éirí
don éirí

Derived terms

Verb

éirí

  1. present subjunctive of éirigh
    go n-éirí an bóthar leat
    May the journey be successful for you (popularly mistranslated as "May the road rise to meet you"), bon voyage

Mutation

Mutated forms of éirí
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éirí n-éirí héirí t-éirí

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

References

  1. ^ “éirí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 197, page 99
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 252
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5

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