Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish alchaing, from al + cuing.
Noun
alchaing f (genitive singular alchainge, nominative plural alchaingí)
- (literary) rack (for weapons, utensils, etc.)
Declension
Declension of alchaing (second declension)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of alchaing
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| alchaing
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n-alchaing
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halchaing
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alchaing”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “alchaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language