ainbhreitheach
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish ainbrethach (“giving wrong judgement, unjust, injudicious”, adjective), from ainbreith (“wrong or unjust judgement”), from breith (“act of judging, deciding; judgment, legal ruling, interpretation”). Synchronically, ainbhreith (“unjust judgment”) + -ach.
Adjective
ainbhreitheach (genitive singular masculine ainbhreithigh, genitive singular feminine ainbhreithí, plural ainbhreitheacha, comparative ainbhreithí)
Declension
Declension of ainbhreitheach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | ainbhreitheach | ainbhreitheach | ainbhreitheacha | |
| Vocative | ainbhreithigh | ainbhreitheacha | ||
| Genitive | ainbhreithí | ainbhreitheacha | ainbhreitheach | |
| Dative | ainbhreitheach | ainbhreitheach; ainbhreithigh (archaic) |
ainbhreitheacha | |
| Comparative | níos ainbhreithí | |||
| Superlative | is ainbhreithí | |||
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| ainbhreitheach | n-ainbhreitheach | hainbhreitheach | 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) “ainbhreitheach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainbrethach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language