oirfide

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish oirfideadh, from Old Irish airfitiud.

Noun

oirfide m (genitive singular oirfide)

1. minstrelsy, music
2. entertainment

Declension

Declension of oirfide

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative oirfide Vocative a oirfide Genitive oirfide Dative oirfide

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an t-oirfide Genitive an oirfide Dative leis an oirfide don oirfide

Related terms

• oirfideach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oirfide	n-oirfide	hoirfide	t-oirfide
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “oirfide”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN