eaghtyrane
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Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish úachtarán. By surface analysis, eaghtyr + -ane. Cognate to Irish uachtarán and Scottish Gaelic uachdaran.
Noun
[edit]eaghtyrane m (genitive singular eaghtyrane, plural eaghtyraneyn)
- president
- Cha row ayn agh ennym eaghtyrane.
- The president was only a figurehead.
- V'eh er ny ghoaill rish myr Eaghtyrane.
- He was acknowledged as President.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úachtarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language