eirleach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish airlech (“act of hewing down (in battle, etc.), slaughter”), verbal noun of ar·slig (“smites, slays”).

Noun

eirleach m (genitive singular eirligh)

  1. destruction, havoc; carnage, slaughter

Declension

Declension of eirleach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative eirleach
vocative a eirligh
genitive eirligh
dative eirleach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-eirleach
genitive an eirligh
dative leis an eirleach
don eirleach

Mutation

Mutated forms of eirleach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eirleach n-eirleach heirleach not applicable

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

References

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