aitheach

aitheach

Irish

Alternative forms

• athach

Etymology

From Old Irish aithech (“farmer, peasant, countryman, churl, rent-payer”).

Noun

aitheach m (genitive singular aithigh, nominative plural aithigh)

1. (literary) rent-payer
2. churl
3. Alternative form of fathach (“giant”)

Declension

Declension of aitheach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aitheach aithigh Vocative a aithigh a aitheacha Genitive aithigh aitheach Dative aitheach aithigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aitheach na haithigh Genitive an aithigh na n-aitheach Dative leis an aitheach don aitheach leis na haithigh

Mutation

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

Further reading

• "aitheach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 aithech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.