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 ==== ==== Related terms ==== fianaise bhréige (“false witness”) (deceptive public statements) === Mutation === === References === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ainteastach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aintestach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language