aiféala

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish aithméla.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈafʲeːlˠə/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈafʲeːɾˠ/, /ˈafʲeːlˠ/[2] (as if spelled aiféar, aiféal)

Noun

aiféala m (genitive singular aiféala)

  1. regret, remorse
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 21:
      ńīl orm̥ ax ȧfēr fȳ n æmšŕ̥, ə tā kȧlc am.
      [Níl orm ach aiféala faoin aimsir atá cailte agam.]
      I regret only the time I’ve lost.
      (literally, “There is nothing on me but regret concerning…”)
      tā ȧfēr rī wōr orm̥, n̄ax vēdĭm n̥ ceŕəvīš šin ə jīnə ʒic.
      [Tá aiféala rímhór orm nach bhféadaim an tseirbhís sin a dhéanamh dhuit.]
      I greatly regret that I can’t perform that service for you.
      (literally, “There is great regret on me that…”)
  2. shame, shamefacedness

Declension

Declension of aiféala

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative aiféala
Vocative a aiféala
Genitive aiféala
Dative aiféala

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an t-aiféala
Genitive an aiféala
Dative leis an aiféala

don aiféala

  • aiféaltas m (“shame, embarrassment; regret”)

Mutation

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithméla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 256

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