argthóir

Irish

Alternative forms

• airgtheoir

Etymology

From Middle Irish airctheóir (“reaver, plunderer”), from Old Irish orcaid (“kills, slays; despoils, ravages, devastates”, verb). By surface analysis, arg (“destroy, plunder”, transitive verb) +‎ -tóir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

argthóir m (genitive singular argthóra, nominative plural argthóirí)

1. destroyer, plunderer

   Synonym: airgtheach

Declension

Declension of argthóir (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative argthóir argthóirí vocative a argthóir a argthóirí genitive argthóra argthóirí dative argthóir argthóirí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-argthóir na hargthóirí genitive an argthóra na n-argthóirí dative leis an argthóir don argthóir leis na hargthóirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of argthóir

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
argthóir	n-argthóir	hargthóir	t-argthóir

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