Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish oireamh, from Old Irish airem (“ploughman, tiller”).
Noun
aireamh m (genitive singular airimh or aireamhan, nominative plural airimh or aireamhain)
- (literary) ploughman
Declension
Standard:
Declension of aireamh (first declension)
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Alternative:
Declension of aireamh (fifth declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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aireamh
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aireamhain
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| vocative
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a aireamh
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a aireamhain
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| genitive
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aireamhan
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aireamhan
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| dative
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aireamh aireamhain (archaic, dialectal)
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aireamhain
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an t-aireamh
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na haireamhain
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| genitive
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an aireamhan
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na n-aireamhan
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| dative
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leis an aireamh leis an aireamhain (archaic, dialectal) don aireamh don aireamhain (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na haireamhain
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Mutation
Mutated forms of aireamh
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aireamh
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n-aireamh
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haireamh
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t-aireamh
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aireamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language