athair mór

Irish

Noun

athair mór m (genitive singular athar mhóir, nominative plural aithreacha móra)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• athair críonna
• seanathair

Coordinate terms

• máthair mhór (“grandmother”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
athair mór	n-athair mór	hathair mór	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) “athair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN