eireaballach
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom eireaball (“tail”) -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
editeireaballach (genitive singular masculine eireaballaigh, genitive singular feminine eireaballaí, plural eireaballacha, not comparable)
Declension
editsingular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | eireaballach | eireaballach | eireaballacha | |
vocative | eireaballaigh | eireaballacha | ||
genitive | eireaballaí | eireaballacha | eireaballach | |
dative | eireaballach | eireaballach; eireaballaigh (archaic) |
eireaballacha | |
Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
Superlative | (not comparable) |
Mutation
editradical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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eireaballach | n-eireaballach | heireaballach | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eireaballach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eireaballach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “eireaballach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024