acarsóid

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish accarsóit (“anchorage”) (compare Scottish Gaelic acarsaid), borrowed from Old Norse.

Noun

acarsóid f (genitive singular acarsóide)

1. (sailing) anchorage

   Synonyms: ancaireacht, leaba ancaire

Declension

Declension of acarsóid (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative acarsóid vocative a acarsóid genitive acarsóide dative acarsóid forms with the definite article case singular nominative an acarsóid genitive na hacarsóide dative leis an acarsóid don acarsóid

Mutation

Mutated forms of acarsóid

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acarsóid	n-acarsóid	hacarsóid	not applicable

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

Further reading

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