aifearach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aifir (“rebuke”, verb) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]aifearach (genitive singular masculine aifearaigh, genitive singular feminine aifearaí, plural aifearacha, comparative aifearaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of aifearach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | aifearach | aifearach | aifearacha | |
| Vocative | aifearaigh | aifearacha | ||
| Genitive | aifearaí | aifearacha | aifearach | |
| Dative | aifearach | aifearach; aifearaigh (archaic) |
aifearacha | |
| Comparative | níos aifearaí | |||
| Superlative | is aifearaí | |||
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aifearach | n-aifearach | haifearach | 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) “aifearach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithbirach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language