airchinneach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airchinnech (“head, leader, superior”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).

Noun

airchinneach m (genitive singular airchinnigh, nominative plural airchinnigh)

1. (historical) hereditary steward of church lands

Declension

Declension of airchinneach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative airchinneach airchinnigh Vocative a airchinnigh a airchinneacha Genitive airchinnigh airchinneach Dative airchinneach airchinnigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-airchinneach na hairchinnigh Genitive an airchinnigh na n-airchinneach Dative leis an airchinneach don airchinneach leis na hairchinnigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airchinneach	n-airchinneach	hairchinneach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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