áitheasach

Irish

Alternative forms

• áthasach

Etymology

From Old Irish áithesach, áthasach (“victorious, successful”), from áithes, áthas (“sharpness, keenness; successful feat, exploit, victory; joy”). By surface analysis, áitheas (“success, victory”) +‎ -ach (adjectival ending).

Adjective

áitheasach (genitive singular masculine áitheasaigh, genitive singular feminine áitheasaí, plural áitheasacha, comparative áitheasaí)

1. successful, victorious

Declension

Declension of áitheasach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	áitheasach	áitheasach	áitheasacha
Vocative	áitheasaigh		áitheasacha
Genitive		áitheasaí	áitheasacha	áitheasach
Dative	áitheasach	áitheasach; áitheasaigh (archaic)	áitheasacha
Comparative	níos áitheasaí
Superlative	is áitheasaí

Related terms

• áitheas m (“success, victory”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áitheasach	n-áitheasach	háitheasach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áitheasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áithesach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language