éadach

Irish

Alternative forms

eudach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (“a covering, raiment, clothing, a garment”).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈia̯d̪ˠəx/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠəx/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːd̪ˠa(h)/

Noun

éadach m (genitive singular éadaigh, nominative plural éadaí)

(countable) cloth
Synonym: anairt
(collective, nautical) sail
(in the singular or in the plural) clothes, clothing
Proverb: Den duine an t-éadach. ― Clothes make the man.

Declension

Declension of éadach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	éadach	éadaí
Vocative	a éadaigh	a éadaí
Genitive	éadaigh	éadaí
Dative	éadach	éadaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-éadach	na héadaí
Genitive	an éadaigh	na n-éadaí
Dative	leis an éadach don éadach	leis na héadaí

Derived terms

baiséadach (“baize”)
ciseán éadaigh (“clothes-basket”)
éadach a dhéanamh (“make sail”)
éadach altóra (“altar-cloth”)
éadach baile (“homespun”)
éadach boird
éadach cinn (“jib, head-cloth”)
éadach cláir
éadach cnis (“underwear”)
éadach cultacha (“suiting”)
éadach leapa (“bedclothes”)
éadach leapa
éadach lín
éadach na soithí (“tea towel”)
éadach ola (“oil-cloth”)
éadach róin (“haircloth”)
éadach saic (“sackcloth”)
éadach síoda (“silk cloth, silk fabric”)
éadach soitheach (“dish-cloth”)
éadach tábla (“table-cloth”)
éadach tochta (“ticking”)
éadach tráidire (“tray-cloth”)
éadach tuáillí
fo-éadach (“underclothing”)
líne éadaigh (“clothes-line”)
línéadach
mionéadach (“haberdashery”)
pionna éadaigh
seoléadach (“sailcloth”)
siopa éadaigh (“draper's shop”)
taiséadach (“shroud, winding sheet”)
tuáilléadach (“terry cloth”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éadach	n-éadach	héadach	t-éadach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 étach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Entries containing “éadach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 92
Entries containing “éadach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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