ailtire

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ailtire m (“house-builder, house-wright”).

Noun

ailtire m (genitive singular ailtire, nominative plural ailtirí)

  1. architect

Declension

Declension of ailtire (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ailtire ailtirí
vocative a ailtire a ailtirí
genitive ailtire ailtirí
dative ailtire ailtirí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-ailtire na hailtirí
genitive an ailtire na n-ailtirí
dative leis an ailtire
don ailtire 		leis na hailtirí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ailtire
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ailtire n-ailtire hailtire t-ailtire

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

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ailtire m (“house-builder, house-wright”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ailtire m (genitive singular ailtire, plural ailtirean)

  1. architect

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of ailtire
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ailtire n-ailtire h-ailtire t-ailtire

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ailtire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailtire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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