ailtireachd

See also: ailtireacht

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ailtirecht f (“building, carpentry”), synchronically analyzable as ailtire (“house-builder, house-wright”) +‎ -achd.

Noun

ailtireachd f

1. architecture

References

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