arnaidh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish arnaid (“cruel, harsh, severe”).

Adjective

arnaidh (genitive singular masculine arnaidh, genitive singular feminine arnaidhe, plural arnaidhe, comparative arnaidhe)

1. (literary) hard, severe

Declension

Declension of arnaidh

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	arnaidh	arnaidh	arnaidhe
Vocative	arnaidh		arnaidhe
Genitive		arnaidhe	arnaidhe	arnaidh
Dative	arnaidh	arnaidh	arnaidhe
Comparative	níos arnaidhe
Superlative	is arnaidhe

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arnaidh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 arnaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language