argthóir

Irish

Alternative forms

• airgtheoir

Etymology

From Middle Irish airctheóir (“reaver, plunderer”), from Old Irish orcaid (“kills, slays; despoils, ravages, devastates”, verb). By surface analysis, arg (“destroy, plunder”, transitive verb) +‎ -tóir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

argthóir m (genitive singular argthóra, nominative plural argthóirí)

1. destroyer, plunderer

   Synonym: airgtheach

Declension

Declension of argthóir

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative argthóir argthóirí Vocative a argthóir a argthóirí Genitive argthóra argthóirí Dative argthóir argthóirí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-argthóir na hargthóirí Genitive an argthóra na n-argthóirí Dative leis an argthóir don argthóir leis na hargthóirí

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “argthóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airctheóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language