flaitheas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • flaitheanas, flathas
  • flaitheanus, flaithios, flathus (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish flaithius (“rule, sovereignty”).[2] By surface analysis, flaith +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfˠl̪ˠahəsˠ/, /ˈfˠlˠahəsˠ/[3]

Noun

flaitheas m (genitive singular flaithis, nominative plural flaithis or flaitheasa)

  1. sovereignty (supreme authority over all things), rule
  2. realm (territory or state), kingdom
  3. (often in the plural) heaven, the heavens, paradise

Declension

Declension of flaitheas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative flaitheas flaithis
vocative a fhlaithis a fhlaitheasa
genitive flaithis flaitheas
dative flaitheas flaithis
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an flaitheas na flaithis
genitive an fhlaithis na bhflaitheas
dative leis an bhflaitheas
don fhlaitheas 		leis na flaithis

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of flaitheas
radical lenition eclipsis
flaitheas fhlaitheas bhflaitheas

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

References

  1. ^ “flaitheas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “flaithius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 90, page 50

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish flaithius (“rule, sovereignty”). By surface analysis, flaith +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfl̪ˠaçəs̪/

Noun

flaitheas m (genitive singular flaitheis, plural flaitheasan)

  1. heaven

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of flaitheas
radical lenition
flaitheas fhlaitheas

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

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