aisréad

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish esríat (“sprinkler; aspergillum”).

Noun

aisréad m (genitive singular aisréid, nominative plural aisréid)

1. (Christianity) aspergillum, sprinkler

Declension

Declension of aisréad

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aisréad aisréid Vocative a aisréid a aisréada Genitive aisréid aisréad Dative aisréad aisréid

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aisréad na haisréid Genitive an aisréid na n-aisréad Dative leis an aisréad don aisréad leis na haisréid

Related terms

• eisréidh (“scatter, sprinkle”, verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aisréad	n-aisréad	haisréad	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) “aisréad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “esríat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language