guaireach
Irish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From guaire (“bristle”) + -ach.
Adjective edit
guaireach (genitive singular masculine guairigh, genitive singular feminine guairí, plural guaireacha, comparative guairí)
Declension edit
Declension of guaireach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | guaireach | ghuaireach | guaireacha; ghuaireacha² | |
Vocative | ghuairigh | guaireacha | ||
Genitive | guairí | guaireacha | guaireach | |
Dative | guaireach; ghuaireach¹ |
ghuaireach; ghuairigh (archaic) |
guaireacha; ghuaireacha² | |
Comparative | níos guairí | |||
Superlative | is guairí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms edit
- guaireachán m (“bristly creature or thing; person with stubbly beard”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Irish gúairech (“bristles”).
Noun edit
guaireach f (genitive singular guairí)
Declension edit
Declension of guaireach
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
guaireach | ghuaireach | nguaireach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “guaireach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “guaireach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “guaireach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúairech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language