aitheach

Irish

Alternative forms

• athach

Etymology

From aith- + -each, "second-class", from Old Irish aithech (“farmer, peasant, countryman, churl, rent-payer”).

Noun

aitheach m (genitive singular aithigh, nominative plural aithigh)

1. (literary) rent-payer
2. churl
3. Alternative form of fathach (“giant”)

Declension

Declension of aitheach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aitheach aithigh Vocative a aithigh a aitheacha Genitive aithigh aitheach Dative aitheach aithigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aitheach na haithigh Genitive an aithigh na n-aitheach Dative leis an aitheach don aitheach leis na haithigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aitheach	n-aitheach	haitheach	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) “aitheach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aithech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language