aird

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See also: Aird, àird, and aird-

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aird f (“peak, point of the compass”).[3]

Noun

aird f (genitive singular airde, nominative plural airde)

  1. direction, point (of compass)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:
      biən̄ ə ʒȳ, ə hȧgəs ō n āŕȷ h-əŕ, ə gūnī fuər.
      [Bíonn an ghaoth a thagas ón aird thoir i gcónaí fúar.]
      The wind that comes out of the easterly direction is always cold.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:
      sn̥ āŕȷ h-eŕ [h-iər, ō huə, ō jȧs].
      [san aird [thoir, thiar, ó thuadh, ó deas]]
      in the easterly direction
Declension
Declension of aird (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aird airde
vocative a aird a airde
genitive airde airde
dative aird airde
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an aird na hairde
genitive na hairde na n-airde
dative leis an aird
don aird 		leis na hairde

Etymology 2

From Old Irish aird (“heed, attention”).[4]

Noun

aird f (genitive singular airde)

  1. attention
    Níor thug mé aird air.
    I didn’t pay attention to it.
  2. notice, mention
Declension
Declension of aird (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative aird
vocative a aird
genitive airde
dative aird
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an aird
genitive na hairde
dative leis an aird
don aird
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

aird

  1. inflection of ard:
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. (archaic) feminine dative singular

Noun

aird m

  1. genitive singular of ard (“height, hillock; top, high part”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aird
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aird n-aird haird not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aird”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 15
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aird ‘peak; point of the compass’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aird ‘heed, attention’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

aird

  1. inflection of ard:
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. feminine accusative/dative singular
    3. neuter genitive singular
    4. masculine nominative plural

Mutation

Mutation of aird
radical lenition nasalization
aird
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-aird

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

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