athair

See also: Athair

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish athair, from Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Noun

athair m (genitive singular athar, nominative plural aithreacha)

  1. father (male parent; term of address for a priest; male ancestor more remote than a parent, a progenitor)
    Fuair m’athair bás.
    My father died.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 21:
      ḱē n xȳ ə wil tū, ə æhŕ̥?
      Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú, a athair? (conventional orthography)
      How are you, father? [could be addressed to one’s own father or to a priest, as in English]
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 22:
      mə æhŕəxə
      m’aithreacha (conventional orthography)
      my fathers, my ancestors
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 22:
      nə h-æhŕəxə n̄ȳfe[2]
      na haithreacha naofa (conventional orthography)
      the Church Fathers
  2. ancestor
  3. sire
Declension
Declension of athair

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative athair aithreacha
Vocative a athair a aithreacha
Genitive athar aithreacha
Dative athair aithreacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-athair na haithreacha
Genitive an athar na n-aithreacha
Dative leis an athair

don athair

 leis na haithreacha
Coordinate terms
Derived terms

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33
  2. Corrected by the author on p. 257 to nȳfə

Further reading

Etymology 2

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Noun

athair f (genitive singular athrach)

  1. creeper
  2. Alternative form of nathair (“snake”)
Declension
Declension of athair

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative athair
Vocative a athair
Genitive athrach
Dative athair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an athair
Genitive na hathrach
Dative leis an athair

don athair

Derived terms
  • athair thalún (“milfoil, yarrow”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
athair n-athair hathair t-athair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈaθɨrʲ]

Noun

athair m (genitive athar, nominative plural aithir)

  1. father

Inflection
Masculine r-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative athair athairL aithir
Vocative athair athairL aithrea
Accusative athairN athairL aithrea
Genitive athar athar aithreN, athraeN
Dative athairL aithrib, athraib aithrib, athraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Irish: athair
  • Manx: ayr
  • Scottish Gaelic: athair

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
athair unchanged n-athair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish athair, from Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈahəɾʲ/

Noun

athair m (genitive singular athar, plural athraichean)

  1. father

Antonyms

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
athairn-athairh-athairt-athair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
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