aircheadal

Irish

Alternative forms

• airceadal

Etymology

From Old Irish airchetal (“metrical composition, poem; poetry; ability to compose poetry”).

Noun

aircheadal m (genitive singular aircheadail)

1. (literary) metrical composition, poem
2. Alternative form of foirceadal (“teaching, instruction; precept, injunction; doctrine”)

Declension

Declension of aircheadal (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aircheadal vocative a aircheadail genitive aircheadail dative aircheadal forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-aircheadal genitive an aircheadail dative leis an aircheadal don aircheadal

Mutation

Mutated forms of aircheadal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aircheadal	n-aircheadal	haircheadal	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) “aircheadal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchetal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language