Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, cithréim +‎ -ach, but since the adjective is attested earlier, the noun may be a back-formation. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic ciorramach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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cithréimeach (genitive singular masculine cithréimigh, genitive singular feminine cithréimí, plural cithréimeacha, comparative cithréimí)

  1. maimed, disabled
  2. abject
  3. (nominalized, masculine) disabled person

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cithréimeach chithréimeach gcithréimeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ cithréimeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cithrumach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98

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