éadach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)

  1. (countable) cloth
    Synonym: anairt
  2. (collective, nautical) sail
  3. (in the singular or in the plural) clothes, clothing
    Den duine an t-éadach. (proverb)
    Clothes make the man.

Declension

Declension of éadach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative éadach éadaí
vocative a éadaigh a éadaí
genitive éadaigh éadaí
dative éadach éadaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-éadach na héadaí
genitive an éadaigh na n-éadaí
dative leis an éadach
don éadach 		leis na héadaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of éadach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éadach n-éadach héadach t-éadach

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 étach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 23, page 24
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 92
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 228

Further reading

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