English Explanatory Dictionary

erenagh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland.

Word forms

erenagh erenaghs erenach

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Irish airchinnech, from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).

Related words

erenaghy coarb
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