cothálach
Irish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cothálach (genitive singular masculine cothálaigh, genitive singular feminine cothálaí, plural cothálacha, comparative cothálaí)
- Alternative form of cothabhálach (“sustaining, nourishing; productive of sustenance”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of cothálach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | cothálach | chothálach | cothálacha; chothálacha² | |
| Vocative | chothálaigh | cothálacha | ||
| Genitive | cothálaí | cothálacha | cothálach | |
| Dative | cothálach; chothálach¹ |
chothálach; chothálaigh (archaic) |
cothálacha; chothálacha² | |
| Comparative | níos cothálaí | |||
| Superlative | is cothálaí | |||
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 |
| cothálach | chothálach | gcothálach |
| 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) “cothálach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN