sodhantach
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish sontach, sonthach, modified by folk etymology to contain the prefix so- (“good”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sodhantach (genitive singular masculine sodhantaigh, genitive singular feminine sodhantaí, plural sodhantacha, comparative sodhantaí)
- (obsolete) vigorous, energetic
- (obsolete) joyful, cheerful
- Synonym of saonta (“simple-minded, gullible”)
Declension edit
Declension of sodhantach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | sodhantach | shodhantach | sodhantacha; shodhantacha² | |
| Vocative | shodhantaigh | sodhantacha | ||
| Genitive | sodhantaí | sodhantacha | sodhantach | |
| Dative | sodhantach; shodhantach¹ |
shodhantach; shodhantaigh (archaic) |
sodhantacha; shodhantacha² | |
| Comparative | níos sodhantaí | |||
| Superlative | is sodhantaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
References edit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 17
Further reading edit
- “sodhantach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sontach, sonntach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súntach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language