eiteach
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish ettech, ittech (“winged; having fins; having wing-like appendages; flying, fluttering”), by extension, (“wings, fins”), from ette (“wing, pinion; fin; feather, plume”). By surface analysis, eite (“wing; pinion; wing feather; fin”) + -ach.
Adjective
eiteach (genitive singular masculine eitigh, genitive singular feminine eití, plural eiteacha, not comparable)
Declension
Derived terms
- cnó eiteach (“wing-nut, butterfly nut”)
- -eiteach (“-winged”)
- scriú eiteach (“wing-screw”)
Declension
Declension of eiteach
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Etymology 2
From Middle Irish eitech (“refusal, refusing”), verbal noun of Old Irish as·toing (“refuses”, literally “swears away from, removes by oath”).
Declension
Declension of eiteach
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Alternative forms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| eiteach | n-eiteach | heiteach | t-eiteach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ettech, ittech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “as·toing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “eiteach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “eiteach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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