ailtireacht

See also: ailtireachd

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ailtirecht f (“building, carpentry”), synchronically analyzable as ailtire (“house-builder, house-wright”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

ailtireacht f (genitive singular ailtireachta)

1. architecture

Declension

Declension of ailtireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ailtireacht vocative a ailtireacht genitive ailtireachta dative ailtireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ailtireacht genitive na hailtireachta dative leis an ailtireacht don ailtireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of ailtireacht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ailtireacht	n-ailtireacht	hailtireacht	not applicable

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

References

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