gormshúileach

Irish

Etymology

From gorm (“blue”) +‎ súileach (“eyed”).

Adjective

gormshúileach (genitive singular masculine gormshúiligh, genitive singular feminine gormshúilí, plural gormshúileacha, comparative gormshúilí)

1. blue-eyed

Declension

Declension of gormshúileach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	gormshúileach	ghormshúileach	gormshúileacha; ghormshúileacha²
Vocative	ghormshúiligh		gormshúileacha
Genitive		gormshúilí	gormshúileacha	gormshúileach
Dative	gormshúileach; ghormshúileach¹	ghormshúileach; ghormshúiligh (archaic)	gormshúileacha; ghormshúileacha²
Comparative	níos gormshúilí
Superlative	is gormshúilí

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

Noun

gormshúileach m (genitive singular gormshúiligh, nominative plural gormshúileacha)

1. costmary

Declension

Declension of gormshúileach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative gormshúileach gormshúiligh Vocative a ghormshúiligh a ghormshúileacha Genitive gormshúiligh gormshúileach Dative gormshúileach gormshúiligh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an gormshúileach na gormshúiligh Genitive an ghormshúiligh na ngormshúileach Dative leis an ngormshúileach don ghormshúileach leis na gormshúiligh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gormshúileach	ghormshúileach	ngormshúileach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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