aireaghdha

Irish

Alternative forms

• oireaghdha

Etymology

From Old Irish airegdae (“excellent, pre- eminent, notable; principal, leading, first”), from aire (“noble, chief”).

Adjective

aireaghdha

1. (literary) noble, pre-eminent

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aireaghdha	n-aireaghdha	haireaghdha	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) “aireaghdha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airegda (-ae)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language