uachtarán

See also: Uachtarán and úachtarán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úachtarán (“leader, chief”); synchronically, uachtar +‎ -án (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˑəxt̪ˠəɾˠaːn̻ˠ/

Noun

uachtarán m (genitive singular uachtaráin, nominative plural uachtaráin)

1. president; head, superior
   1. headmaster (school, academic)

      Synonym: ardmháistir

2. (archaic) landowner

Usage notes

When used as a title, uachtarán is capitalized: see Uachtarán.

Declension

Declension of uachtarán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative uachtarán uachtaráin Vocative a uachtaráin a uachtarána Genitive uachtaráin uachtarán Dative uachtarán uachtaráin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uachtarán na huachtaráin Genitive an uachtaráin na n-uachtarán Dative leis an uachtarán don uachtarán leis na huachtaráin

Derived terms

• uachtaránacht f (“presidency; authority, power”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uachtarán	n-uachtarán	huachtarán	t-uachtarán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uachtarán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úachtarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “uachtarán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “uachtarán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024