argthóir

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish airctheóir (reaver, plunderer), from Old Irish orcaid (kills, slays; despoils, ravages, devastates, verb). By surface analysis, arg (destroy, plunder, transitive verb) +‎ -tóir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

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argthóir m (genitive singular argthóra, nominative plural argthóirí)

  1. destroyer, plunderer
    Synonym: airgtheach

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
argthóir n-argthóir hargthóir t-argthóir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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