eirleach

Irish

From Old Irish airlech (“act of hewing down (in battle, etc.), slaughter”), verbal noun of ar·slig (“smites, slays”).

eirleach m (genitive singular eirligh)

Declension of eirleach (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an t-eirleach
genitive	an eirligh
dative	leis an eirleach don eirleach

Mutated forms of *eirleach*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eirleach	n-eirleach	heirleach	not applicable

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

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eirleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 airlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eirleach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“eirleach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025