aisteach

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Irish

Etymology 1

From aiste (“quirk, peculiarity; knack, odd talent”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adjective

aisteach (genitive singular masculine aistigh, genitive singular feminine aistí, plural aisteacha, comparative aistí)

  1. peculiar, queer, strange, unusual; wonderful, surprising
    Synonym: aistiúil
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 30:
      n̄ax æšcəx ə šḱēl ē?
      [Nach aisteach an scéal é?]
      Isn’t that a strange story?
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 30:
      tā šē rī æšcəx gə mĭøx n̥ ȷīnēr xō ȷeŕnəx.
      [Tá sé rí-aisteach go mbeadh an dinnéar chomh deireanach.]
      It’s very strange that dinner would be so late.
  2. droll
    Synonym: aistiúil
Declension
Declension of aisteach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative aisteach aisteach aisteacha
Vocative aistigh aisteacha
Genitive aistí aisteacha aisteach
Dative aisteach aisteach;
aistigh (archaic) 		aisteacha
Comparative níos aistí
Superlative is aistí
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

Adverb

aisteach

  1. Obsolete spelling of isteach.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aisteach n-aisteach haisteach not applicable
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), “aistech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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