argthóir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish airctheóir (“reaver, plunderer”), from Old Irish orcaid (“kills, slays; despoils, ravages, devastates”, verb); synchronically, 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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative argthóir argthóirí
Vocative a argthóir a argthóirí
Genitive argthóra argthóirí
Dative argthóir argthóirí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-argthóir na hargthóirí
Genitive an argthóra na n-argthóirí
Dative leis an argthóir

don argthóir

 leis na hargthóirí

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
argthóir n-argthóir hargthóir t-argthóir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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