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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish úathad, óthad, úaithed (“a small number, a few; the singular number”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtos.
Noun
uathadh m (genitive singular uathaidh)
- (literary) a small number, a few
- Alternative form of uatha
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| uathadh
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n-uathadh
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huathadh
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t-uathadh
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uathadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathad, óthad, úaithed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language