oidhe

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish aided.[2]

Noun

oidhe f (genitive singular oidhe, nominative plural oidheanna)

  1. tragedy, a tragic tale
  2. death (especially by violence)
  3. tragic fate, fate, doom, destiny
  4. what one deserves
  5. act of slaying

Declension

Declension of oidhe (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative oidhe oidheanna
vocative a oidhe a oidheanna
genitive oidhe oidheanna
dative oidhe oidheanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an oidhe na hoidheanna
genitive na hoidhe na n-oidheanna
dative leis an oidhe
don oidhe 		leis na hoidheanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of oidhe
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oidhe n-oidhe hoidhe not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “oidhe”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aided”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “oiḋeaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 526
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “oiḋeaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 810; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oidhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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