áirc

See also: airc

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish árc, áirc (“coffer, chest; Ark of the covenant”), borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”).

Noun

áirc f (genitive singular áirce)

1. ark

Declension

Declension of áirc

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative áirc Vocative a áirc Genitive áirce Dative áirc

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an áirc Genitive na háirce Dative leis an áirc don áirc

Derived terms

• Áirc an Chonartha f (“the Ark of the Covenant”)

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áirc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “árc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Noun

áirc f

1. Alternative form of árc (“coffer, chest; Ark of the covenant”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
árc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-árc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “árc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language