gaothaire

Irish

Etymology

gaoth +‎ -aire

Noun

gaothaire m (genitive singular gaothaire, nominative plural gaothairí)

1. vent (opening through which gases, especially air, can pass)

Inflection

Declension of gaothaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative gaothaire gaothairí Vocative a ghaothaire a ghaothairí Genitive gaothaire gaothairí Dative gaothaire gaothairí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an gaothaire na gaothairí Genitive an ghaothaire na ngaothairí Dative leis an ngaothaire don ghaothaire leis na gaothairí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gaothaire	ghaothaire	ngaothaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “gaothaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gaothaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 352
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gaothaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN