aistriú

Irish

Alternative forms

• aistriughadh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish aistriugad (“act of moving; moving about”), verbal noun of aistrigid (“causes to move, brings; travels”). By surface analysis, aistrigh +‎ -ú.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /aʃˈtʲɾʲuː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃtʲɾʲuː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃtʲɾʲu/

Noun

aistriú m (genitive singular aistrithe, nominative plural aistrithe)

1. verbal noun of aistrigh (“move, transfer, translate; switch, exchange; transpose; journey, travel; relocate, transplant”)
2. switch; removal, transfer
3. transposition
4. translation

Declension

Declension of aistriú

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aistriú aistrithe Vocative a aistriú a aistrithe Genitive aistrithe aistriú Dative aistriú aistrithe

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aistriú na haistrithe Genitive an aistrithe na n-aistriú Dative leis an aistriú don aistriú leis na haistrithe

Derived terms

• aistriú saor m (“free translation”)
• aistriú gan ullmhú m (“translation at sight”)
• aistriúchán m (“translation”)
• mí-aistriú m (“mistranslation”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aistriú	n-aistriú	haistriú	t-aistriú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aistriú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aistriugad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aistriú”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “aistriú”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 47