German edit

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

eitre

  1. inflection of eitern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish etrige, from Old Irish etarche, from Proto-Celtic *enterɸrikyā, from *enter (between) *ɸrikā (furrow).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

eitre f (genitive singular eitre, nominative plural eitrí)

  1. furrow, groove
  2. (carpentry) draft
  3. (golf) groove (in the club face)
    Synonym: claisín
  4. chink (of sea shell)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*frikā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 140/141
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 35