gearbach
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish gerbach (“scabby, mangy”); synchronically, gearb (“scab, mange”) + -ach.
Adjective
gearbach (genitive singular masculine gearbaigh, genitive singular feminine gearbaí, plural gearbacha, comparative gearbaí)
Declension
Declension of gearbach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | gearbach | ghearbach | gearbacha; ghearbacha² | |
Vocative | ghearbaigh | gearbacha | ||
Genitive | gearbaí | gearbacha | gearbach | |
Dative | gearbach; ghearbach¹ |
ghearbach; ghearbaigh (archaic) |
gearbacha; ghearbacha² | |
Comparative | níos gearbaí | |||
Superlative | is gearbaí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
gearbach m (genitive singular gearbaigh)
Declension
Declension of gearbach
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gearbach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gerbach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language