oifigeach

Irish

Alternative forms

• oificeach

Etymology

From Old Irish oificech (“a person discharging duties of a post, an official, officer”), from oific (“office”).

Noun

oifigeach m (genitive singular oifigigh, nominative plural oifigigh)

1. officer (of police; military; business)
2. official (executive; of government)

Declension

Declension of oifigeach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative oifigeach oifigigh vocative a oifigigh a oifigeacha genitive oifigigh oifigeach dative oifigeach oifigigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-oifigeach na hoifigigh genitive an oifigigh na n-oifigeach dative leis an oifigeach don oifigeach leis na hoifigigh

Synonyms

• feidhmeannach
• garda
• saighdiúir

Derived terms

• fo-oifigeach (“subordinate officer, subaltern; subordinate official”)
• má-oifigeach (“field-officer”)
• oifigeach barántais (“warrant officer”)
• oifigeach ceannais (“commanding officer”)
• oifigeach coimisiúnta (“commissioned officer”)
• oifigeach feidhmiúcháin (“executive officer”)
• oifigeach foirne (“staff officer”)
• oifigeach neamhchoimisiúnta (“non-commissioned officer”)
• oifigeach promhaidh (“probation officer”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of oifigeach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oifigeach	n-oifigeach	hoifigeach	t-oifigeach

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