inchurtha

Irish

Alternative forms

• ionchurtha, ion-churtha

Etymology

From in- +‎ curtha.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞nˠxɔɾˠhə/

Adjective

inchurtha

1. able to be X'ed where X is any of the senses of cuir, including in a wide variety of idioms, for example:
   1. tillable
   2. inchurtha i bhfeidhm (“enforceable”), from cuir i bhfeidhm (“to enforce”)
   3. inchurtha ar ais (“returnable”), from cuir ar ais (“to return”)
   4. inchurtha in iúl (“communicable”), from cuir in iúl (“to communicate”)
2. being a match [with le ‘for’], comparable [with le ‘to’]

Declension

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

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

• “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