gaofaireacht

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáethmairecht.[2] By surface analysis, gaofar +‎ -acht.

Noun

gaofaireacht f (genitive singular gaofaireachta)

  1. flatulence
  2. windiness

Declension

Declension of gaofaireacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative gaofaireacht
vocative a ghaofaireacht
genitive gaofaireachta
dative gaofaireacht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an ghaofaireacht
genitive na gaofaireachta
dative leis an ngaofaireacht
don ghaofaireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of gaofaireacht
radical lenition eclipsis
gaofaireacht ghaofaireacht ngaofaireacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “gaofaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethmairecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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