oirmhinneach
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish airmitnech (“honoured, respected”).
Adjective
[edit]oirmhinneach (genitive singular masculine oirmhinnigh, genitive singular feminine oirmhinní, plural oirmhinneacha, comparative oirmhinní)
Declension
[edit]Declension of oirmhinneach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | oirmhinneach | oirmhinneach | oirmhinneacha | |
Vocative | oirmhinnigh | oirmhinneacha | ||
Genitive | oirmhinní | oirmhinneacha | oirmhinneach | |
Dative | oirmhinneach | oirmhinneach; oirmhinnigh (archaic) |
oirmhinneacha | |
Comparative | níos oirmhinní | |||
Superlative | is oirmhinní |
Noun
[edit]oirmhinneach m (genitive singular oirmhinnigh, nominative plural oirmhinnigh)
- (ecclesiastical, as form of address, title) reverence
Declension
[edit]Declension of oirmhinneach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
oirmhinneach | n-oirmhinneach | hoirmhinneach | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oirmhinneach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airmitnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language