bruidheanach

Irish

Adjective

bruidheanach (genitive singular masculine bruidheanaigh, genitive singular feminine bruidheanaí, plural bruidheanacha, comparative bruidheanaí)

1. obsolete spelling of bruíonach (“quarrelsome”)

Declension

Declension of bruidheanach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	bruidheanach	bhruidheanach	bruidheanacha; bhruidheanacha2
vocative	bhruidheanaigh		bruidheanacha
genitive		bruidheanaí	bruidheanacha	bruidheanach
dative	bruidheanach; bhruidheanach1	bhruidheanach; bhruidheanaigh (archaic)	bruidheanacha; bhruidheanacha2
Comparative	níos bruidheanaí
Superlative	is bruidheanaí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of bruidheanach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bruidheanach	bhruidheanach	mbruidheanach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bruidhean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN