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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish ceithern (“band of soldiers”), from Latin quaterniō (“group of four soldiers”).
Noun
ceithearn f (genitive singular ceithirne, nominative plural ceithearna)
- (historical, military) troop of foot soldiers
- (historical) yeomanry
- multitude
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| ceithearn
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cheithearn
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gceithearn
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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
- “ceithearn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceithern”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceaṫarn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 130
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceiṫearn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 133
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceithearn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN