ortha

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See also: orða

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ortha, from Latin ōrātiō.

Noun

ortha f (genitive singular ortha, nominative plural orthaí)

  1. (literary) prayer
  2. incantation, spell, charm, enchantment, invocation
  3. talisman
Declension
Declension of ortha (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ortha orthaí
vocative a ortha a orthaí
genitive ortha orthaí
dative ortha orthaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ortha na horthaí
genitive na hortha na n-orthaí
dative leis an ortha
don ortha 		leis na horthaí
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ortha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronoun

ortha (emphatic orthasan)

  1. alternative form of orthu

Mutation

Mutated forms of ortha
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ortha n-ortha hortha not applicable

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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