aistire
Irish
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish aistire (“doorkeeper in a monastery”), from Latin ostiārius (“porter, doorman”).
Noun
editaistire m (genitive singular aistire, nominative plural aistirí)
- (ecclesiastical) porter
Declension
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Alternative forms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editaistire f sg
Mutation
editradical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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aistire | n-aistire | haistire | t-aistire |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aistire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aistire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language