aimhriar

Irish

Alternative forms

• aimhréir
• ainriar

Etymology

From Old Irish aimríar (“disobedience, unsubmissiveness”), negated form of ríar (“at the will of”).

Noun

aimhriar f (genitive singular aimhréire)

1. disobedience, disaffection
2. incongruity, repugnance
3. (philosophy) disorder

   Synonym: mí-ordaigh

Declension

Declension of aimhriar

Second declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an aimhriar Genitive na haimhréire Dative leis an aimhriar don aimhriar

Derived terms

• aimhréireach (“repugnant”, adjective)
• aimhriarach (“disobedient”, adjective)

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aimhriar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aimríar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language