airne

See also: áirne

Irish

From Old Irish áirne,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *agrinyos, from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Compare Proto-Germanic *akraną (“acorn”) and Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ (“berry”), and the Iberian loanwords of Catalan aranyó (“sloe”), Spanish arañón (“sloe”), Occitan agreno, Basque aran (“plum”), basokaran (“sloe”), etc.

airne f or m (genitive singular airne, nominative plural airní)

Declension of airne (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an airne	na hairní
genitive	na hairne	na n-airní
dative	leis an airne don airne	leis na hairní

Declension of airne (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an t-airne	na hairní
genitive	an airne	na n-airní
dative	leis an airne don airne	leis na hairní

Mutated forms of *airne*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airne	n-airne	hairne	not applicable

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áirne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19