aircheadal

Irish

Alternative forms

• airceadal

Etymology

From Old Irish airchetal (“metrical composition, poem; poetry; ability to compose poetry”).

Noun

aircheadal m (genitive singular aircheadail)

1. (literary) metrical composition, poem
2. Alternative form of foirceadal (“teaching, instruction; precept, injunction; doctrine”)

Declension

Declension of aircheadal

First declension

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

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aircheadal	n-aircheadal	haircheadal	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) “aircheadal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airchetal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language