aird
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish aird f (“peak, point of the compass”).[3]
Noun
[edit]aird f (genitive singular airde, nominative plural airde)
- direction, point (of compass)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:
- biən̄ ə ʒȳ, ə hȧgəs ō n āŕȷ h-əŕ, ə gūnī fuər.
- [Bíonn an ghaoth a thagas ón aird thoir i gcónaí fúar.]
- The wind that comes out of the easterly direction is always cold.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:
- sn̥ āŕȷ h-eŕ [h-iər, ō huə, ō jȧs].
- [san aird [thoir, thiar, ó thuadh, ó deas]]
- in the easterly [westerly, northerly, southerly] direction
Declension
[edit]Declension of aird
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Irish aird (“heed, attention”).[4]
Noun
[edit]aird f (genitive singular airde)
Declension
[edit]Declension of aird
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
[edit]aird
Noun
[edit]aird m
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aird | n-aird | haird | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aird”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 15
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aird ‘peak; point of the compass’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aird ‘heed, attention’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aird”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aird
- inflection of ard:
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
aird (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-aird |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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