aireaghdha

Irish

Alternative forms

• oireaghdha

Etymology

From Old Irish airegdae (“excellent, pre- eminent, notable; principal, leading, first”), from aire (“noble, chief”).

Adjective

aireaghdha

1. (literary) noble, pre-eminent

Mutation

Mutated forms of aireaghdha

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