gríobhach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish gríbach, from gríb (“griffin”). By surface analysis, gríobh + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]gríobhach (genitive singular masculine gríobhaigh, genitive singular feminine gríobhaí, plural gríobhacha, comparative gríobhaí)
- griffin-like
- Synonym: gríofa
- fierce, formidable
Declension
[edit]Declension of gríobhach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | gríobhach | ghríobhach | gríobhacha; ghríobhacha² | |
Vocative | ghríobhaigh | gríobhacha | ||
Genitive | gríobhaí | gríobhacha | gríobhach | |
Dative | gríobhach; ghríobhach¹ |
ghríobhach; ghríobhaigh (archaic) |
gríobhacha; ghríobhacha² | |
Comparative | níos gríobhaí | |||
Superlative | is gríobhaí |
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 | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gríobhach | ghríobhach | ngríobhach |
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) “gríobhach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gríbach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language