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Irish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish rudraigecht.
Proper noun
An Rúraíocht f (genitive na Rúraíochta)
- (Irish mythology, literature) the Ulster Cycle
Declension
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ruḋraiġeaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Rúraíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall, Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig (1991) “Rúraíocht”, in An Foclóir Beag (in Irish), Dublin: An Gúm
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rudraigecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language