inchurtha
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
inchurtha
- able to be X'ed where X is any of the senses of cuir, including in a wide variety of idioms, for example:
- tillable
- inchurtha i bhfeidhm (“enforceable”), from cuir i bhfeidhm (“to enforce”)
- inchurtha ar ais (“returnable”), from cuir ar ais (“to return”)
- inchurtha in iúl (“communicable”), from cuir in iúl (“to communicate”)
- being a match [+ le (object) = for], comparable [+ le (object) = to]
Declension edit
Declension of inchurtha
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | inchurtha | inchurtha | inchurtha | |
| Vocative | inchurtha | inchurtha | ||
| Genitive | inchurtha | inchurtha | inchurtha | |
| Dative | inchurtha | inchurtha | inchurtha | |
| Comparative | níos inchurtha | |||
| Superlative | is inchurtha | |||
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| inchurtha | n-inchurtha | hinchurtha | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading edit
- “inchurtha”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ionċurṫa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 407
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “inchurtha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40
