úachtarán

Middle Irish

Etymology

From úachtar +‎ -án.

Noun

úachtarán m

1. chief, leader

Descendants

• Irish: uachtarán
• Manx: eaghtyrane
• Scottish Gaelic: uachdaran

Mutation

Mutation of úachtarán

radical	lenition	nasalization
úachtarán	unchanged	n-úachtarán

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úachtarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language