airchinneach
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish airchinnech (“head, leader, superior”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).
Noun
editairchinneach m (genitive singular airchinnigh, nominative plural airchinnigh)
- (historical) hereditary steward of church lands
Declension
editDeclension of airchinneach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
airchinneach | n-airchinneach | hairchinneach | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airchinneach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchinnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language