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gáifeach

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gáibthech (“dangerous, terrible”).[2] By surface analysis, gábh +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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gáifeach (genitive singular masculine gáifigh, genitive singular feminine gáifí, plural gáifeacha, comparative gáifí)

  1. loud (of a colour, clothing etc.)
  2. exaggerated, sensational, overblown
  3. flamboyant, ostentatious

Declension

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Declension of gáifeach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative gáifeach gháifeach gáifeacha;
gháifeacha²
Vocative gháifigh gáifeacha
Genitive gáifí gáifeacha gáifeach
Dative gáifeach;
gháifeach¹ 		gháifeach;
gháifigh (archaic) 		gáifeacha;
gháifeacha²
Comparative níos gáifí
Superlative is gáifí

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

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gáifeach gháifeach ngáifeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “gáifeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáibthech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 319, page 112

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