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ardcheannas

ardcheannas

Irish

Noun

ardcheannas m ‎(genitive singular ardcheannais)

supremacy, overlordship, sovereignty
(military) high command

Declension

Declension of ardcheannas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	ardcheannas
Vocative	a ardcheannais
Genitive	ardcheannais
Dative	ardcheannas

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an t-ardcheannas
Genitive	an ardcheannais
Dative	leis an ardcheannas don ardcheannas

Synonyms

(overlordship): ard-aireacht, ardtiarnas
(supremacy, sovereignty): ceannas
(sovereignty): flaitheas, flaithiúnas

Derived terms

ardcheannasach ‎(“supreme, predominant; sovereign”, adj)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ardcheannas	n-ardcheannas	hardcheannas	t-ardcheannas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"ardcheannas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.