faitcheasach

Irish

Adjective

faitcheasach (genitive singular masculine faitcheasaigh, genitive singular feminine faitcheasaí, plural faitcheasacha, comparative faitcheasaí)

1. Obsolete spelling of faitíosach (“fearful, apprehensive; timid, shy”).

Declension

Declension of faitcheasach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	faitcheasach	fhaitcheasach	faitcheasacha; fhaitcheasacha²
Vocative	fhaitcheasaigh		faitcheasacha
Genitive		faitcheasaí	faitcheasacha	faitcheasach
Dative	faitcheasach; fhaitcheasach¹	fhaitcheasach; fhaitcheasaigh (archaic)	faitcheasacha; fhaitcheasacha²
Comparative	níos faitcheasaí
Superlative	is faitcheasaí

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
faitcheasach	fhaitcheasach	bhfaitcheasach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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