ainteastach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aintestach (“unreliable witness”), from ainteist (legal term used of a person not qualified to act as witness, literally “non-witness”), from teist (“witness”).

Noun

ainteastach m (genitive singular ainteastaigh, nominative plural ainteastaigh)

(law) false witness (a deceptive or misleading witness)

Declension

Declension of ainteastach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ainteastach	ainteastaigh
Vocative	a ainteastaigh	a ainteastacha
Genitive	ainteastaigh	ainteastach
Dative	ainteastach	ainteastaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-ainteastach	na hainteastaigh
Genitive	an ainteastaigh	na n-ainteastach
Dative	leis an ainteastach don ainteastach	leis na hainteastaigh

Related terms

fianaise bhréige (“false witness”) (deceptive public statements)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainteastach	n-ainteastach	hainteastach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"ainteastach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“aintestach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.