ársa

See also: arsa

Irish

Alternative forms

• ársaidh (obsolete)
• (noun): ársach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish arsaid (“old, ancient, aged”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸarstā-, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pr- (“before, formerly; through, throughout”) + *steh₂-. Compare Scottish Gaelic àrsaidh.

Adjective

ársa

1. ancient, antique
2. archaic
3. aged, veteran

Synonyms

• sean

Antonyms

• óg
• nua

Derived terms

• anársa (“young, inexperienced”, adjective)
• ársaigh (“to grow old”)
• ársaíocht (“archaism”)
• bréagársa (“pseudo-archaic”, adjective)

 

Noun

ársa m (genitive singular ársa, nominative plural ársaí)

1. (literary) aged person; (in plural) ancients
2. veteran

Declension

Declension of ársa (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ársa ársaí vocative a ársa a ársaí genitive ársa ársaí dative ársa ársaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ársa na hársaí genitive an ársa na n-ársaí dative leis an ársa don ársa leis na hársaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of ársa

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ársa	n-ársa	hársa	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ársa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “arsaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ársa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 40
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ársa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ársa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024