oirchill

Irish

Alternative forms

• airichill

Etymology

From Old Irish airichill (“act of preparing for, providing for, making (oneself) ready for; preparation, provision, readiness”).

Noun

oirchill f (genitive singular oirchille)

1. act of preparing, making ready (for)
2. preparation, provision, readiness; expectation
3. lying in wait, ambush
4. treachery

Declension

Declension of oirchill

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative oirchill Vocative a oirchill Genitive oirchille Dative oirchill

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an oirchill Genitive na hoirchille Dative leis an oirchill don oirchill

Mutation

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

References

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