ainteastach
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editainteastach m (genitive singular ainteastaigh, nominative plural ainteastaigh)
- (law) false witness (a deceptive or misleading witness)
Declension
editDeclension of ainteastach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Related terms
edit- fianaise bhréige (“false witness”) (deceptive public statements)
Mutation
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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
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ainteastach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aintestach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language