Wiktionary

gearreireaballach

Irish

edit

Etymology

edit

From gearr- (“short”) + eireaball (“tail”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

edit

gearreireaballach (genitive singular masculine gearreireaballaigh, genitive singular feminine gearreireaballaí, plural gearreireaballacha, comparative gearreireaballaí)

  1. short-tailed
  2. curtailed, scanty

Declension

edit
Declension of gearreireaballach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative gearreireaballach ghearreireaballach gearreireaballacha;
ghearreireaballacha²
Vocative ghearreireaballaigh gearreireaballacha
Genitive gearreireaballaí gearreireaballacha gearreireaballach
Dative gearreireaballach;
ghearreireaballach¹ 		ghearreireaballach;
ghearreireaballaigh (archaic) 		gearreireaballacha;
ghearreireaballacha²
Comparative níos gearreireaballaí
Superlative is gearreireaballaí

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

Mutation

edit
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gearreireaballach ghearreireaballach ngearreireaballach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=gearreireaballach&oldid=80516936"