atha

See also: Atha, àtha, átha, ätha, and aþa

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish athad.

Noun

atha f (genitive singular atha)

1. space of time

Declension

Declension of atha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative atha Vocative a atha Genitive atha Dative atha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an atha Genitive na hatha Dative leis an atha don atha

Alternative forms

• athaidh

Derived terms

• atha fhada (“a long while”)
• i gceann atha (“after a while”)
• le hatha (“for some time”)

 

Etymology 2

Noun

atha f (genitive singular atha)

1. Alternative form of aife (“ebb; decline, decay; reflux”)

Declension

Declension of atha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative atha Vocative a atha Genitive atha Dative atha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an atha Genitive na hatha Dative leis an atha don atha

Mutation

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

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aða/

Verb

atha (infinitive gwatha)

1. to order, to command

Related terms

(Nouns)

• gĩathĩ class 7
• watho class 14

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• “atha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀅𑀣 (Brahmi script)
• अथ (Devanagari script)
• অথ (Bengali script)
• අථ (Sinhalese script)
• အထ or ဢထ (Burmese script)
• อถ or อะถะ (Thai script)
• ᩋᨳ (Tai Tham script)
• ອຖ or ອະຖະ (Lao script)
• អថ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄗 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit अथ (atha).

Particle

atha

1. and, and then, and also, moreover