oifigeach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish oificech (“a person discharging duties of a post, an official, officer”), from oific (“office”).
Noun
[edit]oifigeach m (genitive singular oifigigh, nominative plural oifigigh)
Declension
[edit]Declension of oifigeach
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- fo-oifigeach (“subordinate officer, subaltern; subordinate official”)
- má-oifigeach (“field-officer”)
- oifigeach barántais (“warrant officer”)
- oifigeach ceannais (“commanding officer”)
- oifigeach coimisiúnta (“commissioned officer”)
- oifigeach feidhmiúcháin (“executive officer”)
- oifigeach foirne (“staff officer”)
- oifigeach neamhchoimisiúnta (“non-commissioned officer”)
- oifigeach promhaidh (“probation officer”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| oifigeach | n-oifigeach | hoifigeach | t-oifigeach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oifigeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oificech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language