acaointeach

Irish

Alternative forms

• acaoineach, acmhainneach

Etymology

From Old Irish accaíntech (“plaintive, querulous, complaining”), from accaíned (“act of complaining; complaint, lamentation”). By surface analysis, acaoineadh, acaointe (“doleful crying; complaint, lamentation”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

acaointeach (genitive singular masculine acaointigh, genitive singular feminine acaointí, plural acaointeacha, comparative acaointí)

1. plaintive, doleful

Declension

Declension of acaointeach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	acaointeach	acaointeach	acaointeacha
Vocative	acaointigh		acaointeacha
Genitive		acaointí	acaointeacha	acaointeach
Dative	acaointeach	acaointeach; acaointigh (archaic)	acaointeacha
Comparative	níos acaointí
Superlative	is acaointí

Related terms

• acaoineadh m (“doleful crying; complaint, lamentation”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acaointeach	n-acaointeach	hacaointeach	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) “acaointeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 accaíntech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language