Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish airisech (“chronicler, narrator”), from airisiu (“act of recording; record, narration, story”). By surface analysis, oireas + -ach.
Noun
oiriseach m (genitive singular oirisigh, nominative plural oirisigh)
- (historical) chronicler
- Synonyms: croiniceoir, croinicí
Declension
Declension of oiriseach (first declension)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of oiriseach
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eclipsis |
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with t-prothesis
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n-oiriseach
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hoiriseach
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t-oiriseach
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oiriseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airisech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language