oirfide

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish oirfideadh, from Old Irish airfitiud.

Noun

oirfide m (genitive singular oirfide)

  1. minstrelsy, music
  2. entertainment

Declension

Declension of oirfide (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative oirfide
vocative a oirfide
genitive oirfide
dative oirfide
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-oirfide
genitive an oirfide
dative leis an oirfide
don oirfide

Mutation

Mutated forms of oirfide
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oirfide n-oirfide hoirfide t-oirfide

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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