áirc

See also: airc

Irish

From Old Irish árc, áirc (“coffer, chest; Ark of the covenant”), borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”).

áirc f (genitive singular áirce)

Declension of áirc (second declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an áirc
genitive	na háirce
dative	leis an áirc don áirc

Mutated forms of *áirc*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áirc	n-áirc	háirc	not applicable

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

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áirc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “árc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

áirc f

Mutation of *áirc*
radical	lenition	nasalization
áirc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	áirc	n-áirc

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

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “árc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language