urnaí

Irish

Alternative forms

• urnaighe

Etymology

From Old Irish airnigde (“praying; prayer”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /uːɾˠˈn̪ˠiː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈuːɾˠn̪ˠiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠn̪ˠi/

Noun

urnaí m (genitive singular urnaí, nominative plural urnaithe)

1. (act of) praying
2. prayer

Declension

Declension of urnaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative urnaí urnaithe Vocative a urnaí a urnaithe Genitive urnaí urnaithe Dative urnaí urnaithe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urnaí na hurnaithe Genitive an urnaí na n-urnaithe Dative leis an urnaí don urnaí leis na hurnaithe

Derived terms

• leabhar urnaí m (“prayer-book”)
• urnaí na maidine m (“morning prayer”)
• stól urnaí m (“prie-dieu”)
• urnaitheach (“prayerful, devout”, adjective)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urnaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airnigde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language