árthach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish arthrach (ferrying; ferry boat).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

árthach m (genitive singular árthaigh, nominative plural árthaí)

  1. ship, vessel, craft (vehicle designed for navigation)
    Synonym: soitheach
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
      Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.
      They were six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not surprising.
  2. container
    Synonyms: coimeádán, soitheach

Declension

Declension of árthach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative árthach árthaí
vocative a árthaigh a árthaí
genitive árthaigh árthaí
dative árthach árthaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-árthach na hárthaí
genitive an árthaigh na n-árthaí
dative leis an árthach
don árthach
leis na hárthaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of árthach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
árthach n-árthach hárthach t-árthach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ árthach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 arthrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 189
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 17

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