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Irish
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish oires (“history, knowledge or record of events”).
Noun
oireas m (genitive singular oiris)
- record (of events)
- history
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
oireas
- inflection of oir:
- present indicative relative
- first-person singular past indicative dependent
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| oireas
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n-oireas
|
hoireas
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t-oireas
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oireas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oires”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language