acaointeach
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish accaíntech (“plaintive, querulous, complaining”), from accaíned (“act of complaining; complaint, lamentation”); synchronically, acaoineadh, acaointe (“doleful crying; complaint, lamentation”) + -ach.
Adjective
acaointeach (genitive singular masculine acaointigh, genitive singular feminine acaointí, plural acaointeacha, comparative acaointí)
Declension
Declension of acaointeach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | acaointeach | acaointeach | acaointeacha | |
| Vocative | acaointigh | acaointeacha | ||
| Genitive | acaointí | acaointeacha | acaointeach | |
| Dative | acaointeach | acaointeach; acaointigh (archaic) |
acaointeacha | |
| Comparative | níos acaointí | |||
| Superlative | is acaointí | |||
Related terms
- acaoineadh m (“doleful crying; complaint, lamentation”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| acaointeach | n-acaointeach | hacaointeach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acaointeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 accaíntech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language