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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aithgirrach, an alternative form of aithgerr (“very short, very brief”, adjective). By surface analysis, aicearra + -ach.
Adjective
aicearrach (genitive singular masculine aicearraigh, genitive singular feminine aicearraí, plural aicearracha, comparative aicearraí)
- short
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aicearrach
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n-aicearrach
|
haicearrach
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aicearrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithgirrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithgerr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language