aitheach

Irish

Alternative forms

• athach

Etymology

From aith- + -each, "second-class", from Old Irish aithech (“farmer, peasant, countryman, churl, rent-payer”).

Noun

aitheach m (genitive singular aithigh, nominative plural aithigh)

1. (literary) rent-payer
2. churl
3. Alternative form of fathach (“giant”)

Declension

Declension of aitheach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aitheach aithigh vocative a aithigh a aitheacha genitive aithigh aitheach dative aitheach aithigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aitheach na haithigh genitive an aithigh na n-aitheach dative leis an aitheach don aitheach leis na haithigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of aitheach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aitheach	n-aitheach	haitheach	not applicable

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) “aitheach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aithech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language