oirmhinneach

Irish

Alternative forms

• airmhidneach
• oirmhidneach

Etymology

From Old Irish airmitnech (“honoured, respected”).

Adjective

oirmhinneach (genitive singular masculine oirmhinnigh, genitive singular feminine oirmhinní, plural oirmhinneacha, comparative oirmhinní)

1. reverend

Declension

Declension of oirmhinneach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneacha
vocative	oirmhinnigh		oirmhinneacha
genitive		oirmhinní	oirmhinneacha	oirmhinneach
dative	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneach; oirmhinnigh (archaic)	oirmhinneacha
Comparative	níos oirmhinní
Superlative	is oirmhinní

Noun

oirmhinneach m (genitive singular oirmhinnigh, nominative plural oirmhinnigh)

1. (ecclesiastical, as form of address, title) reverence

Declension

Declension of oirmhinneach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative oirmhinneach oirmhinnigh vocative a oirmhinnigh a oirmhinneacha genitive oirmhinnigh oirmhinneach dative oirmhinneach oirmhinnigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-oirmhinneach na hoirmhinnigh genitive an oirmhinnigh na n-oirmhinneach dative leis an oirmhinneach don oirmhinneach leis na hoirmhinnigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of oirmhinneach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oirmhinneach	n-oirmhinneach	hoirmhinneach	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) “oirmhinneach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airmitnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language