oirmhinneach
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish airmitnech (“honoured, respected”).
Adjective edit
oirmhinneach (genitive singular masculine oirmhinnigh, genitive singular feminine oirmhinní, plural oirmhinneacha, comparative oirmhinní)
Declension edit
Declension of oirmhinneach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | oirmhinneach | oirmhinneach | oirmhinneacha | |
Vocative | oirmhinnigh | oirmhinneacha | ||
Genitive | oirmhinní | oirmhinneacha | oirmhinneach | |
Dative | oirmhinneach | oirmhinneach; oirmhinnigh (archaic) |
oirmhinneacha | |
Comparative | níos oirmhinní | |||
Superlative | is oirmhinní |
Noun edit
oirmhinneach m (genitive singular oirmhinnigh, nominative plural oirmhinnigh)
- (ecclesiastical, as form of address, title) reverence
Declension edit
Declension of oirmhinneach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
oirmhinneach | n-oirmhinneach | hoirmhinneach | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oirmhinneach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airmitnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language