árthach

Irish

From Middle Irish arthrach (“ferrying; ferry boat”).^[2]

árthach m (genitive singular árthaigh, nominative plural árthaí)

ship, vessel, craft (vehicle designed for navigation)
Synonym: soitheach
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
  Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.
  They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.
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Synonyms: coimeádán, soitheach

Declension of árthach (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an t-árthach	na hárthaí
genitive	an árthaigh	na n-árthaí
dative	leis an árthach don árthach	leis na hárthaí

Mutated forms of *árthach*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
árthach	n-árthach	hárthach	t-árthach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ “árthach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 arthrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 189
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 17