eirleach

Irish

Alternative forms

• airleach

Etymology

From Old Irish airlech (“act of hewing down (in battle, etc.), slaughter”), verbal noun of ar·slig (“smites, slays”).

Noun

eirleach m (genitive singular eirligh)

1. destruction, havoc; carnage, slaughter

Declension

Declension of eirleach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative eirleach vocative a eirligh genitive eirligh dative eirleach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-eirleach genitive an eirligh dative leis an eirleach don eirleach

Mutation

Mutated forms of eirleach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eirleach	n-eirleach	heirleach	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) “eirleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 airlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eirleach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “eirleach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025