abairt

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish epert (“a saying, utterance”), from as·beir (“says”); compare abair.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈabˠəɾˠtʲ/

Noun

abairt f (genitive singular abairte, nominative plural abairtí)

  1. sentence
  2. expression
  3. saying, adage, phrase
  4. manner, practice
  5. feat

Declension
Declension of abairt

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative abairt abairtí
Vocative a abairt a abairtí
Genitive abairte abairtí
Dative abairt abairtí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an abairt na habairtí
Genitive na habairte na n-abairtí
Dative leis an abairt

don abairt

 leis na habairtí

Derived terms

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish epert (“a saying, utterance”), from as·beir (“says”); compare abair.

Noun

abairt f (genitive singular abairte, plural abairtean)

  1. comment, phrase, expression
  2. (grammar) phrase
  3. babbling; conversation
  4. recrimination, scolding
  5. politeness in idiom
  6. education
  7. speech, articulation
Derived terms
  • abairt roimhearach (“prepositional phrase”)
  • comh-abairt (“conference, dialogue, conversation”)
  • mì-abairt (“mis-saying”)

Noun

abairt f

  1. accoutrements, apparatus
  2. custom, usage, habit

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
abairtn-abairth-abairtt-abairt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “abairt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “epert”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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