oiriseach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish airisech (“chronicler, narrator”), from airisiu (“act of recording; record, narration, story”). By surface analysis, oireas +‎ -ach.

Noun

oiriseach m (genitive singular oirisigh, nominative plural oirisigh)

1. (historical) chronicler

   Synonyms: croiniceoir, croinicí

Declension

Declension of oiriseach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative oiriseach oirisigh Vocative a oirisigh a oiriseacha Genitive oirisigh oiriseach Dative oiriseach oirisigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-oiriseach na hoirisigh Genitive an oirisigh na n-oiriseach Dative leis an oiriseach don oiriseach leis na hoirisigh

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oiriseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airisech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language