argthóir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish airctheóir (“reaver, plunderer”), from Old Irish orcaid (“kills, slays; despoils, ravages, devastates”, verb). By surface analysis, arg (“destroy, plunder”, transitive verb) +‎ -tóir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

argthóir m (genitive singular argthóra, nominative plural argthóirí)

  1. destroyer, plunderer
    Synonym: airgtheach

Declension

Declension of argthóir (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative argthóir argthóirí
vocative a argthóir a argthóirí
genitive argthóra argthóirí
dative argthóir argthóirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-argthóir na hargthóirí
genitive an argthóra na n-argthóirí
dative leis an argthóir
don argthóir 		leis na hargthóirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of argthóir
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
argthóir n-argthóir hargthóir t-argthóir

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

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