oiris

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

oiris f (genitive singular oirise)

1. orris

Declension

Declension of oiris

Second declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an oiris Genitive na hoirise Dative leis an oiris don oiris

Derived terms

• fréamh oirise (“orris-root”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish airis, aires, oires (“(fore-)knowledge; tryst, assignation, arrangement to meet”).

Noun

oiris f (genitive singular oirise)

1. (literary) arrangement to meet, appointment, tryst

Declension

Declension of oiris

Second declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an oiris Genitive na hoirise Dative leis an oiris don oiris

Etymology 3

From Old Irish ar·sissedar (“stays, stands fast, rests, remains; halts, delays; endures, persists”), verbal noun airisem.

Verb

oiris (verbal noun oiriseamh)

1. (intransitive, literary) stay, stop; wait, delay

Alternative forms

• airis

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

oiris m

1. genitive singular of oireas (“record (of events); history”)

Verb

oiris

1. second-person singular past indicative dependent of oir

Mutation

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

References

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