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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish flaithius (“rule, sovereignty”).[2] By surface analysis, flaith + -as.
Pronunciation
Noun
flaitheas m (genitive singular flaithis, nominative plural flaithis or flaitheasa)
- sovereignty (supreme authority over all things), rule
- realm (territory or state), kingdom
- (often in the plural) heaven, the heavens, paradise
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| flaitheas
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fhlaitheas
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bhflaitheas
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “flaitheas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “flaithius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 90, page 50
Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish flaithius (“rule, sovereignty”). By surface analysis, flaith + -as.
Pronunciation
Noun
flaitheas m (genitive singular flaitheis, plural flaitheasan)
- heaven
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.