athrach

See also: áthrach

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aitherrach (“act of repeating; repetition; act of changing, altering; change; a change of, hence a different, another; diversity, variety”), verbal noun of ad·eirrig (“repeats, reiterates; changes; changes for the better, emends, improves”).

Noun

athrach m (genitive singular athraigh)

1. change, alteration
2. alternative

Declension

Declension of athrach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative athrach Vocative a athraigh Genitive athraigh Dative athrach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-athrach Genitive an athraigh Dative leis an athrach don athrach

Alternative forms

• aithearrach
• áthrach

Etymology 2

Noun

athrach f sg

1. genitive singular of athair (“creeper”)

Mutation

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