eireaballach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From eireaball (“tail”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]eireaballach (genitive singular masculine eireaballaigh, genitive singular feminine eireaballaí, plural eireaballacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of eireaballach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| eireaballach | n-eireaballach | heireaballach | 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) “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