foighdeach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From foighid, foighide + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]foighdeach (genitive singular masculine foighdigh, genitive singular feminine foighdí, plural foighdeacha, comparative foighdí)
- Alternative form of foighneach (“patient”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of foighdeach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | foighdeach | fhoighdeach | foighdeacha; fhoighdeacha² | |
| Vocative | fhoighdigh | foighdeacha | ||
| Genitive | foighdí | foighdeacha | foighdeach | |
| Dative | foighdeach; fhoighdeach¹ |
fhoighdeach; fhoighdigh (archaic) |
foighdeacha; fhoighdeacha² | |
| Comparative | níos foighdí | |||
| Superlative | is foighdí | |||
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 |
| foighdeach | fhoighdeach | bhfoighdeach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “foiġdeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 324
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 64
