oidhreacht

Irish

From Middle Irish eigrecht (compare Scottish Gaelic oighreachd, Manx eiraght), from eigre (“heir, inheritor, successor, descendant”). By surface analysis, oidhre +‎ -acht.

oidhreacht f (genitive singular oidhreachta, nominative plural oidhreachtaí)

Declension of oidhreacht (third declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an oidhreacht	na hoidhreachtaí
genitive	na hoidhreachta	na n-oidhreachtaí
dative	leis an oidhreacht don oidhreacht	leis na hoidhreachtaí

Mutated forms of *oidhreacht*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oidhreacht	n-oidhreacht	hoidhreacht	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5

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