aintéineach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aintéine (“antenna”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]aintéineach (genitive singular masculine aintéinigh, genitive singular feminine aintéiní, plural aintéineacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of aintéineach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | aintéineach | aintéineach | aintéineacha | |
| Vocative | aintéinigh | aintéineacha | ||
| Genitive | aintéiní | aintéineacha | aintéineach | |
| Dative | aintéineach | aintéineach; aintéinigh (archaic) |
aintéineacha | |
| Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
| Superlative | (not comparable) | |||
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aintéineach | n-aintéineach | haintéineach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aintéineach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN