gearreireaballach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gearr- (“short”) + eireaball (“tail”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]gearreireaballach (genitive singular masculine gearreireaballaigh, genitive singular feminine gearreireaballaí, plural gearreireaballacha, comparative gearreireaballaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gearreireaballach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | gearreireaballach | ghearreireaballach | gearreireaballacha; ghearreireaballacha² | |
Vocative | ghearreireaballaigh | gearreireaballacha | ||
Genitive | gearreireaballaí | gearreireaballacha | gearreireaballach | |
Dative | gearreireaballach; ghearreireaballach¹ |
ghearreireaballach; ghearreireaballaigh (archaic) |
gearreireaballacha; ghearreireaballacha² | |
Comparative | níos gearreireaballaí | |||
Superlative | is gearreireaballaí |
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 | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gearreireaballach | ghearreireaballach | ngearreireaballach |
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) “gearreireaballach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “gearreireaballach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024