ainbhreitheach

Irish

Alternative forms

• ainbhreathach

Etymology

From Old Irish ainbrethach (“giving wrong judgement, unjust, injudicious”, adjective), from ainbreith (“wrong or unjust judgement”), from breith (“act of judging, deciding; judgment, legal ruling, interpretation”). By surface analysis, ainbhreith (“unjust judgment”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

ainbhreitheach (genitive singular masculine ainbhreithigh, genitive singular feminine ainbhreithí, plural ainbhreitheacha, comparative ainbhreithí)

1. (law, of verdict) perverse

Declension

Declension of ainbhreitheach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ainbhreitheach	ainbhreitheach	ainbhreitheacha
Vocative	ainbhreithigh		ainbhreitheacha
Genitive		ainbhreithí	ainbhreitheacha	ainbhreitheach
Dative	ainbhreitheach	ainbhreitheach; ainbhreithigh (archaic)	ainbhreitheacha
Comparative	níos ainbhreithí
Superlative	is ainbhreithí

Mutation

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