sladach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From slad (“plunder, pillage, loot; devastate, destroy”, verb) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]sladach (genitive singular masculine sladaigh, genitive singular feminine sladaí, plural sladacha, comparative sladaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of sladach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | sladach | shladach | sladacha; shladacha² | |
| Vocative | shladaigh | sladacha | ||
| Genitive | sladaí | sladacha | sladach | |
| Dative | sladach; shladach¹ |
shladach; shladaigh (archaic) |
sladacha; shladacha² | |
| Comparative | níos sladaí | |||
| Superlative | is sladaí | |||
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 |
| sladach | shladach after an, tsladach |
not applicable |
| 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) “sladach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “plundering”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sladach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm