aithis

See also: áithis and aiþis

Irish

From Old Irish aithis (“reproach; disgrace”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *ati-wissus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éti (“beyond”) + *weyd- (“to see, know”).^[2] Comparable to Proto-Germanic *idiwītą (“disgrace, shame, disdain”).

aithis f (genitive singular aithise, nominative plural aithisí)

slur, reproach
shame, disgrace
(uncountable) sarcasm
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 21:
  əs bĭøg mə jŕān əŕ ə dinə šin, mar tā šē l̄ān g æhəš.
  [Is beag mo ghreann ar an duine sin, mar atá sé lán d’aithis.]
  I have little love for that person, because he’s full of sarcasm.

Declension of aithis (second declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an aithis	na haithisí
genitive	na haithise	na n-aithisí
dative	leis an aithis don aithis	leis na haithisí

Mutated forms of *aithis*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aithis	n-aithis	haithis	not applicable

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “aithis”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 187, page 93
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 21