áthas

See also: Athas

Irish edit

From Old Irish áithes, áthas (“sharpness; joy”).^[1] Compare aiteann (“gorse, juniper”), which could be from the same root.^[2]

áthas m (genitive singular áthais)

joy, gladness
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
  Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.
  They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.
Alternative form of áitheas (“success, victory”)

Used with bí + the preposition ar (“on”) to say "to be glad"; thus:
tá áthas orm ― I am glad

tá áthas ar an mbuachaill ― the boy is glad

Declension of áthas

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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

^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áithes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “aitionn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 6