úachtarán

Old Irish

Etymology

From úachtar +‎ -án.

Noun

úachtarán m

1. chief, leader

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: uachtarán
• Manx: eaghtyrane
• Scottish Gaelic: uachdaran

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
úachtarán (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-úachtarán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úachtarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language