beartach

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bertach.

Adjective

beartach (genitive singular masculine beartaigh, genitive singular feminine beartaí, plural beartacha, comparative beartaí)

  1. scheming; contriving

Declension

Declension of beartach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative beartach bheartach beartacha;
bheartacha²
Vocative bheartaigh beartacha
Genitive beartaí beartacha beartach
Dative beartach;
bheartach¹ 		bheartach;
bheartaigh (archaic) 		beartacha;
bheartacha²
Comparative níos beartaí
Superlative is beartaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
beartach bheartach mbeartach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish bertach.

Adjective

beartach

  1. rich, wealthy
  2. of, or belonging to, a machine
  3. sheathed
  4. like a sheath or scabbard
  5. too much

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
beartach bheartach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “beartach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bertach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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