"athair" meaning in Old Irish

See athair in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈaθɨrʲ]
Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Etymology templates: {{root|sga|ine-pro|*peh₂-}}, {{etymon|sga|der|cel-pro>*ɸatīr>father|id=father}}, {{der|sga|cel-pro|*ɸatīr}} Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, {{der|sga|ine-pro|*ph₂tḗr}} Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr Head templates: {{head|sga|noun|||genitive|athar|||||||nominative plural|aithir||{{{pl2}}}||{{{pl3}}}|cat2=|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} athair m (genitive athar, nominative plural aithir), {{sga-noun|m|athar|aithir}} athair m (genitive athar, nominative plural aithir) Inflection templates: {{sga-decl-k&g|r|athair|athar|acc_pl=aithrea|dat_pl=aithrib|dat_pl2=athraib|g=m|gen_pl=aithre|gen_pl2=athrae+N|nom_pl=aithir}}, {{sga-decl-noun|acc_du=athair+L|acc_du2=|acc_du3=|acc_pl=aithrea|acc_pl2=|acc_pl3=|acc_sg=athair+N|acc_sg2=|acc_sg3=|class=r-m|dat_du=aithrib|dat_du2=athraib|dat_du3=|dat_pl=aithrib|dat_pl2=athraib|dat_pl3=|dat_sg=athair+L|dat_sg2=|dat_sg3=|gen_du=athar|gen_du2=|gen_du3=|gen_pl=aithre+N|gen_pl2=athrae+N|gen_pl3=|gen_sg=athar|gen_sg2=|gen_sg3=|n=|nom_du=athair+L|nom_du2=|nom_du3=|nom_pl=aithir|nom_pl2=|nom_pl3=|nom_sg=athair|nom_sg2=|nom_sg3=|voc_du=athair+L|voc_du2=|voc_du3=|voc_pl=aithrea|voc_pl2=|voc_pl3=|voc_sg=athair|voc_sg2=|voc_sg3=}} Forms: athar [genitive], aithir [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], athair [nominative, singular], athair [dual, nominative], aithir [nominative, plural], athair [singular, vocative], athair [dual, vocative], aithrea [plural, vocative], athair [accusative, singular], athair [accusative, dual], aithrea [accusative, plural], athar [genitive, singular], athar [dual, genitive], aithre [genitive, plural], athrae [genitive, plural], athair [dative, singular], aithrib [dative, dual], athraib [dative, dual], aithrib [dative, plural], athraib [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], athair [error-unrecognized-form], pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments [error-unrecognized-form], n-athair, athir [alternative]
  1. father Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Male family members Derived forms: athramail
    Sense id: en-athair-sga-noun-iKGIHwAl Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "athair"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: athair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: athair"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gv",
            "2": "ayr"
          },
          "expansion": "Manx: ayr\n→ English: ayr",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Manx: ayr\n→ English: ayr"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "athair"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: athair",
          "name": "desc"
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      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "athar",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithir",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "table-tags"
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        "nominative",
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      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual",
        "nominative"
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    {
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
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      "form": "athair",
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "athair",
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      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
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      "form": "aithrea",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athar",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithre",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athrae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithrib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athraib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithrib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athraib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-athair",
      "source": "mutation"
    },
    {
      "form": "athir",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "nominative plural",
        "14": "aithir",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "athar",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
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        "acc_du3": "",
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        "acc_pl3": "",
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        "dat_sg3": "",
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        "gen_du3": "",
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        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
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        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
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        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
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        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
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        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_pl": "aithrea",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "athair",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": ""
      },
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  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Male family members",
          "orig": "sga:Male family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Male people",
            "Family",
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "athramail"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It is not to palliate sin that he says this, i.e. so that he might put it for this: “we have not done it first and we have not done it only”; but it is to seek forgiveness for himself, as his fathers had been forgiven after sinning.",
          "text": "Ní du ṡémigud pectha at·ber-som inso .i. combad dó fa·cherred: “ní sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá”; acht is do chuingid dílguda dosom, amal du·rolged dïa aithrib íar n-immarmus.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "father"
      ],
      "id": "en-athair-sga-noun-iKGIHwAl",
      "links": [
        [
          "father",
          "father"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈaθɨrʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "athair"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "athramail"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "athair"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: athair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: athair"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gv",
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          },
          "expansion": "Manx: ayr\n→ English: ayr",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Manx: ayr\n→ English: ayr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "athair"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: athair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      "name": "root"
    },
    {
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *ɸatīr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "athar",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithir",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithir",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithrea",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithrea",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athar",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athar",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithre",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athrae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithrib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athraib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aithrib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athraib",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "athair",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-athair",
      "source": "mutation"
    },
    {
      "form": "athir",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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        "11": "",
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        "17": "",
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        "8": "",
        "9": "",
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        "2": "athair",
        "3": "athar",
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        "gen_pl": "aithre",
        "gen_pl2": "athrae+N",
        "nom_pl": "aithir"
      },
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    },
    {
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        "acc_du3": "",
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        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "athair+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
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        "dat_du2": "athraib",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "aithrib",
        "dat_pl2": "athraib",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "athair+L",
        "dat_sg2": "",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "gen_du": "athar",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "aithre+N",
        "gen_pl2": "athrae+N",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "athar",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
        "nom_du": "athair+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_pl": "aithir",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "athair",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "voc_du": "athair+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_pl": "aithrea",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "athair",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old Irish lemmas",
        "Old Irish masculine nouns",
        "Old Irish nouns",
        "Old Irish r-stem nouns",
        "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
        "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂-",
        "Old Irish terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "sga:Male family members"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It is not to palliate sin that he says this, i.e. so that he might put it for this: “we have not done it first and we have not done it only”; but it is to seek forgiveness for himself, as his fathers had been forgiven after sinning.",
          "text": "Ní du ṡémigud pectha at·ber-som inso .i. combad dó fa·cherred: “ní sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá”; acht is do chuingid dílguda dosom, amal du·rolged dïa aithrib íar n-immarmus.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "father"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "father",
          "father"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈaθɨrʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "athair"
}

Download raw JSONL data for athair meaning in Old Irish (5.7kB)

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  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "athair",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "athair",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
  "path": [
    "athair"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "athair",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/1826",
  "msg": "inflection table: empty tags for n-athair",
  "path": [
    "athair"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "athair",
  "trace": ""
}

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