ar aghaidh
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Irish
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Old Irish ar agaid ("before, in front of", literally "in front of the face of"), from Old Irish agad ("face").[1]
Pronunciation
[edit ]Preposition
[edit ]ar aghaidh (plus genitive or possessive determiner, triggers no mutation)
- in front of, opposite, facing
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 4 :
- hȧ šē əŕ m ai.
- [Sheas sé ar m’aghaidh.]
- He stood in front of me.
- ḱē n āc ə rø šē šin? əŕ ai ən cȧmpl̥ gāl̄də.
- [Cén áit a raibh sé sin? Ar aghaidh an teampaill gallda.]
- Where was that? Opposite the Protestant church.
Usage notes
[edit ]Used with a possessive pronoun that agrees with the subject of the sentence, the prepositional phrase can be used as an adverb meaning "forwards, straight ahead ", for example Chuaigh mé díreach ar m’aghaidh ("I went straight ahead"); Tar ar d’aghaidh beagán ("Come forward a little bit").
Inflection
[edit ]| Person: | simple | emphatic | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | first | ar m'aghaidh | ar m'aghaidhse | |
| second | ar d'aghaidh | ar d'aghaidhse | ||
| third | m | ar a aghaidh | ar a aghaidhsean | |
| f | ar a haghaidh | ar a haghaidhse | ||
| plural | first | ar ár n-aghaidh | ar ár n-aghaidhne | |
| second | ar bhur n-aghaidh | ar bhur n-aghaidhse | ||
| third | ar a n-aghaidh | ar a aghaidhsean | ||
Adverb
[edit ]Derived terms
[edit ]- ceann ar aghaidh ("headlong; on purpose")
References
[edit ]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959), Lexique étymologique de l’irlandais ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, pages 23-24
Further reading
[edit ]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), "ar aghaidh", in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), "ar aghaidh", in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- "ar aghaidh", in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026