erenagh

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Irish airchinnech, from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).

Noun

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erenagh (plural erenaghs)

  1. (Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) The head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland.
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See also

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References

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  • Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan (1972) ISBN 7171 0561 X pp.111–113.

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