Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish airisem (“act of resting, remaining, stopping; delay; act of desisting from, stopping; abiding by”), verbal noun of ar·sissedar (“stays, stands fast, rests, remains; halts, delays; endures, persists”). By surface analysis, oiris + -amh.
Noun
oiriseamh m (genitive singular oirisimh)
- verbal noun of oiris (“stay, stop; wait, delay”)
- stay, stop; wait, delay
Declension
Declension of oiriseamh (first declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of oiriseamh
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eclipsis |
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with t-prothesis
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| oiriseamh
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n-oiriseamh
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hoiriseamh
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t-oiriseamh
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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) “oiriseamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airisem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language