barántúil

Irish

Alternative forms

• barántamhail (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish barántamail. By surface analysis, baránta (“warranty”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

barántúil (genitive singular masculine barántúil, genitive singular feminine barántúla, plural barántúla, comparative barántúla)

1. trustworthy
2. authentic

Declension

Declension of barántúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	barántúil	bharántúil	barántúla; bharántúla²
Vocative	bharántúil		barántúla
Genitive		barántúla	barántúla	barántúil
Dative	barántúil; bharántúil¹	bharántúil	barántúla; bharántúla²
Comparative	níos barántúla
Superlative	is barántúla

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

• barántúlacht f (“trustworthiness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
barántúil	bharántúil	mbarántúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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