Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish aimréi(d)tech (contentiousness), from aimréid (contentious, quarrelsome, troublesome).

Noun edit

aimhréiteach m (genitive singular aimhréitigh)

  1. (literary) discord
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Adjective edit

aimhréiteach (genitive singular masculine aimhréitigh, genitive singular feminine aimhréití, plural aimhréiteacha, comparative aimhréití)

  1. Alternative form of aimhréidh (entangled; dishevelled; involved, intricate; uneven, difficult)
Declension edit

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit

References edit

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 64