airgtheach

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aircthech (“inventive, ingenious”).

Adjective

airgtheach (genitive singular masculine airgthigh, genitive singular feminine airgthí, plural airgtheacha, comparative airgthí)

1. inventive

   Synonyms: intlíochtach, tionscnach

Declension

Declension of airgtheach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	airgtheach	airgtheach	airgtheacha
vocative	airgthigh		airgtheacha
genitive		airgthí	airgtheacha	airgtheach
dative	airgtheach	airgtheach; airgthigh (archaic)	airgtheacha
Comparative	níos airgthí
Superlative	is airgthí

Etymology 2

Noun

airgtheach m (genitive singular airgthigh, nominative plural airgthigh)

1. Synonym of argthóir (“destroyer, plunderer”)

Declension

Declension of airgtheach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative airgtheach airgthigh vocative a airgthigh a airgtheacha genitive airgthigh airgtheach dative airgtheach airgthigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-airgtheach na hairgthigh genitive an airgthigh na n-airgtheach dative leis an airgtheach don airgtheach leis na hairgthigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of airgtheach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airgtheach	n-airgtheach	hairgtheach	t-airgtheach

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) “airgtheach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “inventive”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aircthech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “airgtheach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm