gaofaireacht

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáethmairecht.[2] By surface analysis, gaofar +‎ -acht.

Noun

gaofaireacht f (genitive singular gaofaireachta)

  1. flatulence
  2. windiness

Declension

Declension of gaofaireacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative gaofaireacht
Vocative a ghaofaireacht
Genitive gaofaireachta
Dative gaofaireacht

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an ghaofaireacht
Genitive na gaofaireachta
Dative leis an ngaofaireacht

don ghaofaireacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gaofaireacht ghaofaireacht ngaofaireacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “gaofaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethmairecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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