ceathair

Irish
Irish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ceathair
    Ordinal : ceathrú
    Personal : ceathrar
    Attributive : ceithre

Etymology

From Old Irish cethair, from Proto-Celtic *kʷetwores, from earlier Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

Numeral

ceathair

  1. four

Usage notes
  • This form is used independently, not with a noun that it modifies. It is always preceded by the particle a.
  • a ceathair, a cúig, a sé... ― four, five, six...
  • deich a ceathair, deich a cúig, deich a sé... ― fourteen, fifteen, sixteen...
  • bus a ceathair ― bus number four
  • a ceathair a chlog ― four o’clock

Derived terms
  • ceathrar (used to modify personal nouns)
  • ceithre (used to modify non-personal nouns)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ceathair cheathair gceathair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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