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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish íarnach (“fetters; a ploughshare”).
Noun
iarnach m (genitive singular iarnaigh, nominative plural iarnaigh)
- (collective) irons, iron implements; fetters
- plowshare
Declension
Etymology 2
From Old Irish íarnach (“made of iron”, adjective). By surface analysis, iarann (“iron”) + -ach.
Adjective
iarnach (genitive singular masculine iarnaigh, genitive singular feminine iarnaí, plural iarnacha, comparative iarnaí)
- (chemistry) ferric
- Synonym: feireach
- (chemistry) chalybeate
- Synonym: iarnaí
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iarnach
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n-iarnach
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hiarnach
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t-iarnach
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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) “iarnach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 íarnach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 2 íarnach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language