aoire

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish áegaire, from Old Irish augaire (“shepherd, herdsman”).[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈeːɾʲə/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈiːɾʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈiːɣəɾʲə/, (older) /ˈɯːɣəɾʲə/[2] (corresponding to the form aoghaire)

Noun

aoire m (genitive singular aoire, nominative plural aoirí)

  1. shepherd; herdsman
  2. (politics) whip (party policy enforcer)
Declension
Declension of aoire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative aoire aoirí
vocative a aoire a aoirí
genitive aoire aoirí
dative aoire aoirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-aoire na haoirí
genitive an aoire na n-aoirí
dative leis an aoire
don aoire 		leis na haoirí
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
  • aoirigh (“shepherd, herd”, transitive verb)

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈeːɾʲə/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈiːɾʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈiːɾʲə/, (older) /ˈɯːɾʲə/

Noun

aoire f

  1. genitive singular of aoir

Mutation

Mutated forms of aoire
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aoire n-aoire haoire t-aoire

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), “oegaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 64, page 28

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

aoire f

  1. genitive singular of aoir
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