ailtire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ailtire m (“house-builder, house-wright”).

Noun

ailtire m (genitive singular ailtire, nominative plural ailtirí)

1. architect

Declension

Declension of ailtire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ailtire ailtirí vocative a ailtire a ailtirí genitive ailtire ailtirí dative ailtire ailtirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ailtire na hailtirí genitive an ailtire na n-ailtirí dative leis an ailtire don ailtire leis na hailtirí

Derived terms

• ailtireacht f (“architecture”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ailtire

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ailtire	n-ailtire	hailtire	t-ailtire

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ailtire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailtire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ailtire m (“house-builder, house-wright”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʎtʲɪɾʲə/

Noun

ailtire m (genitive singular ailtire, plural ailtirean)

1. architect

Derived terms

• ailtireachd

Mutation

Mutation of ailtire

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ailtire	n-ailtire	h-ailtire	t-ailtire

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ailtire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ailtire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language