bruidheanach

Irish

Adjective

bruidheanach (genitive singular masculine bruidheanaigh, genitive singular feminine bruidheanaí, plural bruidheanacha, comparative bruidheanaí)

1. Obsolete spelling of bruíonach (“quarrelsome”).

Declension

Declension of bruidheanach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	bruidheanach	bhruidheanach	bruidheanacha; bhruidheanacha²
Vocative	bhruidheanaigh		bruidheanacha
Genitive		bruidheanaí	bruidheanacha	bruidheanach
Dative	bruidheanach; bhruidheanach¹	bhruidheanach; bhruidheanaigh (archaic)	bruidheanacha; bhruidheanacha²
Comparative	níos bruidheanaí
Superlative	is bruidheanaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bruidheanach	bhruidheanach	mbruidheanach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruidhean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN