airc

See also: áirc

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾʲc/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airc (“greed, desire; difficulty, strait”).

Noun

airc f (genitive singular airce)

1. greed, voracity
2. want

Declension

Declension of airc

Second declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an airc Genitive na hairce Dative leis an airc don airc

Alternative forms

• airceas m

Derived terms

• airceach (“voracious; needy”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

airc m

1. inflection of arc:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airc (‘difficulty, strait’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 airc (‘greed, desire’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish airc (“difficulty, strait”).

Noun

airc f (genitive singular airce, plural aircean)

1. destitution, distress, need, poverty, necessity

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airc	n-airc	h-airc	t-airc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airc (‘difficulty, strait’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language