gríosach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish grísach. By surface analysis, gríos + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gríosach f (genitive singular gríosaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gríosach
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- déan gríosach (“to wreak havoc”)
- bagair gríosach (“to threaten havoc or destruction”)
- ón tine chun na gríosaí (“out of the frying pan into the fire”)
Adjective
[edit]gríosach (genitive singular masculine gríosaigh, genitive singular feminine gríosaigh, plural gríosacha, comparative gríosaigh)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gríosach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | gríosach | ghríosach | gríosacha; ghríosacha² | |
Vocative | ghríosaigh | gríosacha | ||
Genitive | gríosaí | gríosacha | gríosach | |
Dative | gríosach; ghríosach¹ |
ghríosach; ghríosaigh (archaic) |
gríosacha; ghríosacha² | |
Comparative | níos gríosaí | |||
Superlative | is gríosaí |
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 |
gríosach | ghríosach | ngríosach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 grísach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 grísach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gríosaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 385
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gríosach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷʰer-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Irish adjectives