mórchúramach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mórchúramach (genitive singular masculine mórchúramaigh, genitive singular feminine mórchúramaí, plural mórchúramacha, comparative mórchúramaí)
- exercising great care, great responsibility
Etymology 2
[edit]From mór- (“great, large”) + cúram (“family”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]mórchúramach (genitive singular masculine mórchúramaigh, genitive singular feminine mórchúramaí, plural mórchúramacha, comparative mórchúramaí)
- having a large household
Declension
[edit]Declension of mórchúramach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | mórchúramach | mhórchúramach | mórchúramacha; mhórchúramacha² | |
| Vocative | mhórchúramaigh | mórchúramacha | ||
| Genitive | mórchúramaí | mórchúramacha | mórchúramach | |
| Dative | mórchúramach; mhórchúramach¹ |
mhórchúramach; mhórchúramaigh (archaic) |
mórchúramacha; mhórchúramacha² | |
| Comparative | níos mórchúramaí | |||
| Superlative | is mórchúramaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mórchúramach | mhórchúramach | 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) “mórchúramach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “mórchúramach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024