amaires
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈaṽɨrʲes]
Noun
amaires f (genitive amairise or amirisse, no plural)
- unbelief, faithlessness
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97d10
- Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doïb di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.
- It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that God would not give it to them, and [even] that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97d10
- lack of belief (in a person), suspicion
- doubt, disbelief, incredulity
Inflection
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | amairesL | — | — |
| Vocative | amairesL | — | — |
| Accusative | amairisN, amiris(s), amhiris | — | — |
| Genitive | amairiseH, amirisse | — | — |
| Dative | amairisL, amiris(s), amhiris | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- amairessach, amirissech
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| amaires | unchanged | n-amaires |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “am(a)ires”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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