eitre

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

eitre

  1. inflection of eitern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish etrige, from Old Irish etarche, from Proto-Celtic *enterɸrikyā, from *enter (“between”) *ɸrikā (“furrow”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

eitre f (genitive singular eitre, nominative plural eitrí)

  1. furrow, groove
  2. (carpentry) draft
  3. (golf) groove (in the club face)
    Synonym: claisín
  4. chink (of sea shell)

Declension

Declension of eitre (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative eitre eitrí
vocative a eitre a eitrí
genitive eitre eitrí
dative eitre eitrí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an eitre na heitrí
genitive na heitre na n-eitrí
dative leis an eitre
don eitre 		leis na heitrí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of eitre
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eitre n-eitre heitre 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. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*frikā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 140/141
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 35
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