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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish ailtirecht f (“building, carpentry”), synchronically analyzable as ailtire (“house-builder, house-wright”) + -acht.
Noun
ailtireacht f (genitive singular ailtireachta)
- architecture
Declension
Declension of ailtireacht
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| ailtireacht
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n-ailtireacht
|
hailtireacht
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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) “ailtireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ailtirecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language