ádh

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See also: adh, ADH, adh-, and -adh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ád.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ádh m (genitive singular áidh)

  1. luck
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 14:
      gə giŕə ȷiə n t-ā ərt.
      [Go gcuire Dia an t-ádh ort.]
      May God grant you luck.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 14:
      bə mōr n̥ t-ā (bə wōr n̥ t-ā), n̄ax rau s eǵə tȧdə n-ə himpl̥̄.
      [Ba mór an t-ádh (Ba mhór an t-ádh) nach raibh a fhios aige tada ina thimpeall.]
      Fortunately he didn’t know anything about it.
      (literally, “’Twas great the luck that…”)

Declension

Declension of ádh

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative ádh
Vocative a áidh
Genitive áidh
Dative ádh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an t-ádh
Genitive an áidh
Dative leis an ádh

don ádh

Derived terms

  • ádhúil (“lucky, fortunate”, adjective)
  • mí-ádh m (“ill luck, bad luck, misfortune”)
  • ámharach (“lucky, fortunate”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ádh n-ádh hádh t-ádh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57

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