anchúinsiúil
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From anchúinse (“monster, freak; scoundrel”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective edit
anchúinsiúil (genitive singular masculine anchúinsiúil, genitive singular feminine anchúinsiúla, plural anchúinsiúla, comparative anchúinsiúla)
- Alternative form of anchúinseach (“monstrous, abnormal; scoundrelly”)
Declension edit
Declension of anchúinsiúich
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | anchúinsiúich | anchúinsiúich | anchúinsiú | |
| Vocative | anchúinsiúich | anchúinsiú | ||
| Genitive | anchúinsiú | anchúinsiú | anchúinsiúich | |
| Dative | anchúinsiúich | anchúinsiúich | anchúinsiú | |
| Comparative | níos anchúinsiú | |||
| Superlative | is anchúinsiú | |||
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| anchúinsiúil | n-anchúinsiúil | hanchúinsiúil | 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) “anchúinseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN