alchaing

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish alchaing, from al + cuing.

Noun

alchaing f (genitive singular alchainge, nominative plural alchaingí)

1. (literary) rack (for weapons, utensils, etc.)

Declension

Declension of alchaing (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative alchaing alchaingí vocative a alchaing a alchaingí genitive alchainge alchaingí dative alchaing alchaingí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an alchaing na halchaingí genitive na halchainge na n-alchaingí dative leis an alchaing don alchaing leis na halchaingí

Mutation

Mutated forms of alchaing

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