oirchill

Irish

Alternative forms

• airichill

Etymology

From Old Irish airichill (“act of preparing for, providing for, making (oneself) ready for; preparation, provision, readiness”).

Noun

oirchill f (genitive singular oirchille)

1. act of preparing, making ready (for)
2. preparation, provision, readiness; expectation
3. lying in wait, ambush
4. treachery

Declension

Declension of oirchill (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative oirchill vocative a oirchill genitive oirchille dative oirchill forms with the definite article case singular nominative an oirchill genitive na hoirchille dative leis an oirchill don oirchill

Mutation

Mutated forms of oirchill

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oirchill	n-oirchill	hoirchill	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oirchill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airichill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language