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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish erc (“speckled”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸerkos (“speckled”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“speckled, coloured”).
Noun
[edit]earc m (genitive singular eirc, nominative plural earca)
Declension
[edit]Declension of earc
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
earc | n-earc | hearc | t-earc |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- “earc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “5 erc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]earc f
- a chest (for storage)
- the ark of Noah
- the Ark of the Covenant
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “earc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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