eiteach

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ettech, ittech (“winged; having fins; having wing-like appendages; flying, fluttering”), by extension, (“wings, fins”), from ette (“wing, pinion; fin; feather, plume”). By surface analysis, eite (“wing; pinion; wing feather; fin”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

eiteach (genitive singular masculine eitigh, genitive singular feminine eití, plural eiteacha, not comparable)

1. winged (bird, insect, etc.); pennate, plumed, feathered
2. finned

Declension

Declension of eiteach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	eiteach	eiteach	eiteacha
Vocative	eitigh		eiteacha
Genitive		eití	eiteacha	eiteach
Dative	eiteach	eiteach; eitigh (archaic)	eiteacha
Comparative	níos eití
Superlative	is eití

Derived terms

• cnó eiteach (“wing-nut, butterfly nut”)
• -eiteach (“-winged”)
• scriú eiteach (“wing-screw”)

 

Noun

eiteach m (genitive singular eitigh)

1. wings; plumes, feathers
2. fins

Declension

Declension of eiteach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative eiteach Vocative a eitigh Genitive eitigh Dative eiteach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-eiteach Genitive an eitigh Dative leis an eiteach don eiteach

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish eitech (“refusal, refusing”), verbal noun of Old Irish as·toing (“refuses”, literally “swears away from, removes by oath”).

Noun

eiteach m (genitive singular eitigh)

1. verbal noun of eitigh
2. refusal

   Synonym: eiteachas

Declension

Declension of eiteach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative eiteach Vocative a eitigh Genitive eitigh Dative eiteach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-eiteach Genitive an eitigh Dative leis an eiteach don eiteach

Alternative forms

• eiteachtáil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eiteach	n-eiteach	heiteach	t-eiteach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ettech, ittech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “as·toing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eiteach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “eiteach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024