Irish

Alternative forms

• éi- (slender variant)

Prefix

éa-

1. Privative affix, denoting not.

Usage notes

• Triggers eclipsis on the following part of the compound, other than words in d or g. The spelling reform removed the silent consonant letters in some words, for example:

  éa- + ‎trom ‎(“heavy”) → ‎éadrom ‎(“light”), formerly spelled éadtrom

Synonyms

• mí-
• neamh-

Derived terms

See also

• an-