triathach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish tríathach (“noble”), from tríath (“lord, chieftain, king”).
Adjective
[edit]triathach (genitive singular masculine triathaigh, genitive singular feminine triathaí, plural triathacha, comparative triathaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of triathach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | triathach | thriathach | triathacha; thriathacha² | |
| Vocative | thriathaigh | triathacha | ||
| Genitive | triathaí | triathacha | triathach | |
| Dative | triathach; thriathach¹ |
thriathach; thriathaigh (archaic) |
triathacha; thriathacha² | |
| Comparative | níos triathaí | |||
| Superlative | is triathaí | |||
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 |
| triathach | thriathach | dtriathach |
| 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) “triathach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tríathach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language