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gearbach

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish gerbach (“scabby, mangy”). By surface analysis, gearb (“scab, mange”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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gearbach (genitive singular masculine gearbaigh, genitive singular feminine gearbaí, plural gearbacha, comparative gearbaí)

  1. scabby, mangy

Declension

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Declension of gearbach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative gearbach ghearbach gearbacha;
ghearbacha²
Vocative ghearbaigh gearbacha
Genitive gearbaí gearbacha gearbach
Dative gearbach;
ghearbach¹ 		ghearbach;
ghearbaigh (archaic) 		gearbacha;
ghearbacha²
Comparative níos gearbaí
Superlative is gearbaí

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

Noun

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gearbach m (genitive singular gearbaigh)

  1. (horticulture) scab

Declension

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Declension of gearbach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative gearbach
Vocative a ghearbaigh
Genitive gearbaigh
Dative gearbach

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an gearbach
Genitive an ghearbaigh
Dative leis an ngearbach

don ghearbach

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gearbach ghearbach ngearbach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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