feithicleach
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From feithicil (“vehicle”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]feithicleach (genitive singular masculine feithicligh, genitive singular feminine feithiclí, plural feithicleacha, not comparable)
- vehicular (of or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles)
Declension
[edit]Declension of feithicleach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | feithicleach | fheithicleach | feithicleacha; fheithicleacha² | |
| Vocative | fheithicligh | feithicleacha | ||
| Genitive | feithiclí | feithicleacha | feithicleach | |
| Dative | feithicleach; fheithicleach¹ |
fheithicleach; fheithicligh (archaic) |
feithicleacha; fheithicleacha² | |
| Comparative | níos feithiclí | |||
| Superlative | is feithiclí | |||
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 |
| feithicleach | fheithicleach | bhfeithicleach |
| 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) “feithicleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feithicleach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “feithicleach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024