brabachúil
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From brabach (“gain, profit; benefit, advantage; surplus”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]brabachúil (genitive singular masculine brabachúil, genitive singular feminine brabachúla, plural brabachúla, comparative brabachúla)
Declension
[edit]Declension of brabachúil
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | brabachúil | bhrabachúil | brabachúla; bhrabachúla² | |
Vocative | bhrabachúil | brabachúla | ||
Genitive | brabachúla | brabachúla | brabachúil | |
Dative | brabachúil; bhrabachúil¹ |
bhrabachúil | brabachúla; bhrabachúla² | |
Comparative | níos brabachúla | |||
Superlative | is brabachúla |
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 |
brabachúil | bhrabachúil | mbrabachúil |
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) “brabachúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN