Wiktionary:About Irish

This page explains the layout of Wiktionary entries for words in Irish (code: ). "Irish" is considered to include Early Modern Irish, i.e. all stages of the Irish language from the 13th century to the present. Wiktionary does not use the code  for what Ethnologue calls "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic"; words attested in Irish authors from the early modern era are considered Irish, and those attested in Scottish authors are considered Scottish Gaelic (code:  ).

The basic lemma form of Irish entries is the modern, reformed spelling as laid out by the Caighdeán Oifigiúil and found, for example, in Ó Dónaill's dictionary. Entries for other attested spellings can and should also be made, but any such entry should generally be marked as an or  the main lemma. Prereformed spellings should be marked obsolete only if they are no longer in use; if they are still used (for example, in dialect writing) they should be marked nonstandard.

Pronunciation information should be provided in IPA in accordance with the system given at Appendix:Irish pronunciation. Pronunciations specific to a particular dialect should be marked as such using the template. The parameters, , and provide a link to the Wikipedia article on the dialect; other parameters for more specific dialects can also be provided but add no link. Ideally a published reference for dialect pronunciations should also be given, especially since most Irish dictionaries do not include pronunciation information. Do not add pronunciation information in the so-called "Lárchanúint" (found in Foclóir Póca, for example) unless it happens to coincide with an attested native-speaker pronunciation.

The headword line can be provided using or one of the predefined headword-line templates listed below. Definitions are added in the usual way, including context templates as appropriate. Words found only in some dialects should be tagged with, , or as appropriate. These templates add the entry to Category:Munster Irish, Category:Connacht Irish, and Category:Ulster Irish respectively. More specific dialects can also be added with, many of which categorize automatically into the appropriate broad dialect category.

An inflection table can be added using one of the inflection-table templates listed below. Below that, synonyms, antonyms, coordinate terms, related terms, usage notes, etc., are added in the usual way.

At the end of the entry, Mutations should be added as a level 3 header (i.e. with ===Mutations===). Mutations are at this level because they are independent of part of speech or even etymology; all words with a given spelling in Irish have the same mutations. The mutation template should be used.

Templates
See Category:Irish templates for the full list.

Appendices

 * Appendix:Irish pronunciation
 * Appendix:Irish mutations
 * Appendix:Irish verbs
 * Appendix:Irish irregular verbs
 * Appendix:Irish nouns
 * Appendix:Irish first-declension nouns
 * Appendix:Irish second-declension nouns
 * Appendix:Irish third-declension nouns
 * Appendix:Irish fourth-declension nouns
 * Appendix:Irish fifth-declension nouns
 * Appendix:Irish adjectives
 * Appendix:Irish pronouns
 * Appendix:Irish prepositions
 * Appendix:Irish given names
 * Appendix:Irish Swadesh list