ainteastach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aintestach (“unreliable witness”), from ainteist (legal term used of a person not qualified to act as witness, literally “non-witness”), from teist (“witness”).

Noun

ainteastach m (genitive singular ainteastaigh, nominative plural ainteastaigh)

1. (law) false witness (a deceptive or misleading witness)

Declension

Declension of ainteastach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative ainteastach ainteastaigh Vocative a ainteastaigh a ainteastacha Genitive ainteastaigh ainteastach Dative ainteastach ainteastaigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-ainteastach na hainteastaigh Genitive an ainteastaigh na n-ainteastach Dative leis an ainteastach don ainteastach leis na hainteastaigh

Related terms

• fianaise bhréige (“false witness”) (deceptive public statements)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainteastach	n-ainteastach	hainteastach	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) “ainteastach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aintestach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language