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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish oificech (“a person discharging duties of a post, an official, officer”), from oific (“office”).
Noun
oifigeach m (genitive singular oifigigh, nominative plural oifigigh)
- officer (of police; military; business)
- official (executive; of government)
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oifigeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oificech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language