aird

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See also: Aird, àird, and aird-

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish aird f (peak, point of the compass).[3]

Noun

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aird f (genitive singular airde, nominative plural airde)

  1. direction, point (of compass)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:
      biən̄ ə ʒȳ, ə hȧgəs ō n āŕȷ h-əŕ, ə gūnī fuər.
      [Bíonn an ghaoth a thagas ón aird thoir i gcónaí fúar.]
      The wind that comes out of the easterly direction is always cold.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:
      sn̥ āŕȷ h-eŕ [h-iər, ō huə, ō jȧs].
      [san aird [thoir, thiar, ó thuadh, ó deas]]
      in the easterly [westerly, northerly, southerly] direction
Declension
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish aird (heed, attention).[4]

Noun

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aird f (genitive singular airde)

  1. attention
    Níor thug mé aird air.
    I didn’t pay attention to it.
  2. notice, mention
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Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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aird

  1. inflection of ard:
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. (archaic) feminine dative singular

Noun

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aird m

  1. genitive singular of ard (height, hillock; top, high part)

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aird”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 15
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aird ‘peak; point of the compass’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aird ‘heed, attention’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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aird

  1. inflection of ard:
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. feminine accusative/dative singular
    3. neuter genitive singular
    4. masculine nominative plural

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
aird
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-aird
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.