áirge

See also: airge

Old Irish

Etymology

From árach, verbal noun of ad·rig (“to tie, bind”), + -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːrʲɣʲe]

Noun

áirge f (genitive áirge)

1. a place for milking cows

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	áirgeL	áirgiL	áirgi
Vocative	áirgeL	áirgiL	áirgi
Accusative	áirgiN	áirgiL	áirgi
Genitive	áirge	áirgeL	áirgeN
Dative	áirgiL	áirgib	áirgib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: áirí
• Scottish Gaelic: àirigh
• → Faroese: ærgi
• → Old Norse: erg

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
áirge	unchanged	n-áirge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language