eidhneánach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish eidnénach (“ivy-clad”, adj), from eiden(n) m (“ivy”). By surface analysis, eidhneán (“ivy; ivy branch”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

eidhneánach (genitive singular masculine eidhneánaigh, genitive singular feminine eidhneánaí, plural eidhneánacha, comparative eidhneánaí)

1. ivied, ivy-clad

Declension

Declension of eidhneánach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	eidhneánach	eidhneánach	eidhneánacha
Vocative	eidhneánaigh		eidhneánacha
Genitive		eidhneánaí	eidhneánacha	eidhneánach
Dative	eidhneánach	eidhneánach; eidhneánaigh (archaic)	eidhneánacha
Comparative	níos eidhneánaí
Superlative	is eidhneánaí

Synonyms

• eidhneach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eidhneánach	n-eidhneánach	heidhneánach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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