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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish aitherrach (“act of repeating; repetition; act of changing, altering; change; a change of, hence a different, another; diversity, variety”), verbal noun of ad·eirrig (“repeats, reiterates; changes; changes for the better, emends, improves”).
Noun
athrach m (genitive singular athraigh)
- change, alteration
- alternative
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
athrach f sg
- genitive singular of athair (“creeper”)
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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athrach
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n-athrach
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hathrach
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “athrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aitherrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language