earc

Irish

Alternative forms

• alp, arc

Etymology

From Middle Irish erc (“speckled”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸerkos (“speckled”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“speckled, coloured”).

Noun

earc m (genitive singular eirc, nominative plural earca)

1. newt (amphibian)

   Synonym: niút

2. lizard (reptile)

   Synonym: laghairt

Declension

Declension of earc (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative earc earca vocative a eirc a earca genitive eirc earc dative earc earca forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-earc na hearca genitive an eirc na n-earc dative leis an earc don earc leis na hearca

Derived terms

• earcán
• earc luachra
• earc sléibhe

Mutation

Mutated forms of earc

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
earc	n-earc	hearc	t-earc

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

Further reading

• “earc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “5 erc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Alternative forms

• ærc, earce

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ͜ɑrk/, [æ͜ɑrˠk]

Noun

earc f

1. a chest (for storage)
2. the ark of Noah
3. the Ark of the Covenant

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “earc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.