aimhriarach

Irish

Alternative forms

• aimhriartha
• ainriarach

Etymology

From Middle Irish aimríarach (“disobedient, rebellious”). By surface analysis, aimhriar (“disobedience”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

aimhriarach (genitive singular masculine aimhriaraigh, genitive singular feminine aimhriaraí, plural aimhriaracha, comparative aimhriaraí)

1. disobedient

Declension

Declension of aimhriarach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	aimhriarach	aimhriarach	aimhriaracha
Vocative	aimhriaraigh		aimhriaracha
Genitive		aimhriaraí	aimhriaracha	aimhriarach
Dative	aimhriarach	aimhriarach; aimhriaraigh (archaic)	aimhriaracha
Comparative	níos aimhriaraí
Superlative	is aimhriaraí

Mutation

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

Further reading

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