aimhréiteach

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈavʲɾʲəitʲa(x)/, /ˈãvʲɾʲəitʲa(x)/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aimréi(d)tech (“contentiousness”), from aimréid (“contentious, quarrelsome, troublesome”).

Noun

aimhréiteach m (genitive singular aimhréitigh)

1. (literary) discord

Declension

Declension of aimhréiteach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aimhréiteach vocative a aimhréitigh genitive aimhréitigh dative aimhréiteach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-aimhréiteach genitive an aimhréitigh dative leis an aimhréiteach don aimhréiteach

Alternative forms

• aimhréidhteach

Etymology 2

Adjective

aimhréiteach (genitive singular masculine aimhréitigh, genitive singular feminine aimhréití, plural aimhréiteacha, comparative aimhréití)

1. Alternative form of aimhréidh (“entangled”)

Declension

Declension of aimhréidheach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	aimhréidheach	aimhréidheach	aimhréidheacha
vocative	aimhréidhigh		aimhréidheacha
genitive		aimhréidhí	aimhréidheacha	aimhréidheach
dative	aimhréidheach	aimhréidheach; aimhréidhigh (archaic)	aimhréidheacha
Comparative	níos aimhréidhí
Superlative	is aimhréidhí

Mutation

Mutated forms of aimhréiteach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aimhréiteach	n-aimhréiteach	haimhréiteach	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimhréiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimréi(d)tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language