ainspiorad
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish ainspirut (“evil spirit”). By surface analysis, ain- (“bad, unnatural”) + spiorad (“spirit”).
Noun
editainspiorad m (genitive singular ainspioraid, nominative plural ainspioraid)
Declension
editDeclension of ainspiorad
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- An tAinspiorad m (“the Devil”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ainspiorad | n-ainspiorad | hainspiorad | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ainspiorad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainspirut”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language