uasalathair

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish úasalathair. By surface analysis, uasal (“noble”) +‎ athair (“father”).

Noun

uasalathair m (genitive singular uasalathar, nominative plural uasalaithreacha)

  1. patriarch

Declension

Declension of uasalathair (fifth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative uasalathair uasalaithreacha
vocative a uasalathair a uasalaithreacha
genitive uasalathar uasalaithreacha
dative uasalathair uasalaithreacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-uasalathair na huasalaithreacha
genitive an uasalathar na n-uasalaithreacha
dative leis an uasalathair
don uasalathair 		leis na huasalaithreacha

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of uasalathair
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uasalathair n-uasalathair huasalathair t-uasalathair

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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