carthanach

Irish

carthanach (genitive singular masculine carthanaigh, genitive singular feminine carthanaí)

kind, friendly, charitable
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  Sé sin deagh-dhaoine a bhí maith, carthanach le chéile ar an tsaoghal so, ⁊ beidh an gléas maith sin orra go lá an bhreitheamhnais.
  They are good people who were kind and friendly towards each other in this world, and they will be in that happy state till the day of judgment.

Declension of carthanach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	carthanach	charthanach	carthanach; charthanach²
Vocative	charthanaigh	charthanach	carthanach
Genitive	charthanaigh	carthanaí	carthanach	carthanach
Dative	carthanach; charthanach¹	charthanach; charthanaigh (archaic)	carthanach; charthanach²
Comparative	níos carthanaí
Superlative	is carthanaí

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
carthanach	charthanach	gcarthanach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ “carthanach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carthanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 49