uirlis

Irish

Alternative forms

• uirléis, uirnéis, uirnis
• oirnis (Aran)

Etymology

From earlier (still dialectal) oirnis, from Middle Irish airnéis (“possessions; cattle, stock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːɾˠl̠ʲəʃ/

Noun

uirlis f (genitive singular uirlise, nominative plural uirlisí)

1. tool, implement
2. (music) instrument

   Synonyms: adhbh cheoil, gléas ceoil, ionstraim, uirlis cheoil

Declension

Declension of uirlis (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uirlis uirlisí vocative a uirlis a uirlisí genitive uirlise uirlisí dative uirlis uirlisí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an uirlis na huirlisí genitive na huirlise na n-uirlisí dative leis an uirlis don uirlis leis na huirlisí

Mutation

Mutated forms of uirlis

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uirlis	n-uirlis	huirlis	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uirlis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “uirlis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “uirlis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024