gaelach

See also: Gaelach

Irish

Alternative forms

• gaedhealach (obsolete)

Adjective

gaelach (genitive singular masculine gaelaigh, genitive singular feminine gaelaí, plural gaelacha, comparative gaelaí)

1. Alternative form of Gaelach (“native to Ireland; homely, pleasant; common, ordinary”)

Declension

Declension of gaelach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	gaelach	ghaelach	gaelacha; ghaelacha²
Vocative	ghaelaigh		gaelacha
Genitive		gaelaí	gaelacha	gaelach
Dative	gaelach; ghaelach¹	ghaelach; ghaelaigh (archaic)	gaelacha; ghaelacha²
Comparative	níos gaelaí
Superlative	is gaelaí

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
gaelach	ghaelach	ngaelach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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