beathaisnéiseach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From beathaisnéis (“biography”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]beathaisnéiseach (genitive singular masculine beathaisnéisigh, genitive singular feminine beathaisnéisí, plural beathaisnéiseacha, comparative beathaisnéisí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of beathaisnéiseach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | beathaisnéiseach | bheathaisnéiseach | beathaisnéiseacha; bheathaisnéiseacha² | |
Vocative | bheathaisnéisigh | beathaisnéiseacha | ||
Genitive | beathaisnéisí | beathaisnéiseacha | beathaisnéiseach | |
Dative | beathaisnéiseach; bheathaisnéiseach¹ |
bheathaisnéiseach; bheathaisnéisigh (archaic) |
beathaisnéiseacha; bheathaisnéiseacha² | |
Comparative | níos beathaisnéisí | |||
Superlative | is beathaisnéisí |
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 | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
beathaisnéiseach | bheathaisnéiseach | mbeathaisnéiseach |
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) “beathaisnéiseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “beathaisnéiseach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “beathaisnéiseach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024