eitre

German

Pronunciation
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Verb

eitre

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

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛtʲəɾʲə/[2]

Noun

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
Declension of eitre

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative eitre eitrí
Vocative a eitre a eitrí
Genitive eitre eitrí
Dative eitre eitrí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an eitre na heitrí
Genitive na heitre na n-eitrí
Dative leis an eitre

don eitre

 leis na heitrí

Derived terms

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