bailitheoir

Irish

Etymology

From bailigh (“to collect, gather”, verb) +‎ -itheoir.

Noun

bailitheoir m (genitive singular bailitheora, nominative plural bailitheoirí)

1. collector

Declension

Declension of bailitheoir (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative bailitheoir bailitheoirí vocative a bhailitheoir a bhailitheoirí genitive bailitheora bailitheoirí dative bailitheoir bailitheoirí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an bailitheoir na bailitheoirí genitive an bhailitheora na mbailitheoirí dative leis an mbailitheoir don bhailitheoir leis na bailitheoirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of bailitheoir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bailitheoir	bhailitheoir	mbailitheoir

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

Further reading

• “collector”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bailitheoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN