oirchill
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish airichill (“act of preparing for, providing for, making (oneself) ready for; preparation, provision, readiness”).
Noun
editoirchill f (genitive singular oirchille)
- act of preparing, making ready (for)
- preparation, provision, readiness; expectation
- lying in wait, ambush
- treachery
Declension
editDeclension of oirchill
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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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 |
oirchill | n-oirchill | hoirchill | 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) “oirchill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airichill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language