eirleach

Irish

Alternative forms

• airleach

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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative eirleach Vocative a eirligh Genitive eirligh Dative eirleach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-eirleach Genitive an eirligh Dative leis an eirleach don eirleach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eirleach	n-eirleach	heirleach	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) “eirleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 airlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eirleach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “eirleach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024