artaireach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From artaire (“artery”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]artaireach (genitive singular masculine artairigh, genitive singular feminine artairí, plural artaireacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of artaireach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | artaireach | artaireach | artaireacha | |
| Vocative | artairigh | artaireacha | ||
| Genitive | artairí | artaireacha | artaireach | |
| Dative | artaireach | artaireach; artairigh (archaic) |
artaireacha | |
| Comparative | níos artairí | |||
| Superlative | is artairí | |||
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| artaireach | n-artaireach | hartaireach | 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) “artaireach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “artaireach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “artaireach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024