oiriseach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish airisech (“chronicler, narrator”), from airisiu (“act of recording; record, narration, story”). By surface analysis, oireas +‎ -ach.

Noun

oiriseach m (genitive singular oirisigh, nominative plural oirisigh)

1. (historical) chronicler

   Synonyms: croiniceoir, croinicí

Declension

Declension of oiriseach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative oiriseach oirisigh vocative a oirisigh a oiriseacha genitive oirisigh oiriseach dative oiriseach oirisigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-oiriseach na hoirisigh genitive an oirisigh na n-oiriseach dative leis an oiriseach don oiriseach leis na hoirisigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of oiriseach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oiriseach	n-oiriseach	hoiriseach	t-oiriseach

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