adhastar

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish adastar, from Old Irish adastor, from Proto-Celtic *adaxstrom.

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 singular plural nominative adhastar adhastair vocative a adhastair a adhastara genitive adhastair adhastar dative adhastar adhastair forms with the definite article 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

Mutated forms of adhastar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhastar	n-adhastar	hadhastar	t-adhastar

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), “adhastar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “adhastar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “adhastar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026