adhastar

Irish

Etymology

Noun

adhastar m (genitive singular adhastair, nominative plural adhastair)

  1. halter
    Níl ann ach each gan adhastar. ― He is wayward. (literally, “He is a horse without a halter.”)

Declension
Declension of adhastar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative adhastar adhastair
Vocative a adhastair a adhastara
Genitive adhastair adhastar
Dative adhastar adhastair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-adhastar na hadhastair
Genitive an adhastair na n-adhastar
Dative leis an adhastar

don adhastar

 leis na hadhastair

Derived terms
  • adhastar traenála m (“lunge line”)
  • adhastrach (“halter-like; trailing, rambling; tattered; dilatory”, adjective)
  • ar adhastar (“haltered, led”)

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

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