airchinneach

== Irish == === Etymology === From Old Irish airchinnech (“head, leader, superior”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”). === Noun === airchinneach m (genitive singular airchinnigh, nominative plural airchinnigh) (historical) hereditary steward of church lands ==== Declension ==== === Mutation === === References === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “airchinneach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchinnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language