barrchaol
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From barr- (“-tipped”) + caol (“thin, slender”).
Adjective
[edit]barrchaol (genitive singular masculine barrchaoil, genitive singular feminine barrchaoile, plural barrchaola, comparative barrchaoile)
Declension
[edit]Declension of barrchaol
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | barrchaol | bharrchaol | barrchaola; bharrchaola² | |
| Vocative | bharrchaoil | barrchaola | ||
| Genitive | barrchaoile | barrchaola | barrchaol | |
| Dative | barrchaol; bharrchaol¹ |
bharrchaol; bharrchaoil (archaic) |
barrchaola; bharrchaola² | |
| Comparative | níos barrchaoile | |||
| Superlative | is barrchaoile | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| barrchaol | bharrchaol | mbarrchaol |
| 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) “barrchaol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barrchaol”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm