airchinneach
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish airchinnech (“head, leader, superior”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).
Noun
airchinneach m (genitive singular airchinnigh, nominative plural airchinnigh)
- (historical) hereditary steward of church lands
Declension
Declension of airchinneach
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| airchinneach | n-airchinneach | hairchinneach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airchinneach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airchinnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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