arduallach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ard- + uallach (“giddy, light-headed, scatter-brained; skittish, excitable; vain, proud”).
Adjective
[edit]arduallach (genitive singular masculine arduallaigh, genitive singular feminine arduallaí, plural arduallacha, comparative arduallaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of arduallach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | arduallach | arduallach | arduallacha | |
| Vocative | arduallaigh | arduallacha | ||
| Genitive | arduallaí | arduallacha | arduallach | |
| Dative | arduallach | arduallach; arduallaigh (archaic) |
arduallacha | |
| Comparative | níos arduallaí | |||
| Superlative | is arduallaí | |||
Related terms
[edit]- uaill (“light-headed, scatter-brained, person; vain person”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| arduallach | n-arduallach | harduallach | 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) “arduallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN