éifeachtach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish éifechtach (“effective, efficacious, efficient; weighty, important”). By surface analysis, éifeacht (“force, significance; efficacy, effect; value, importance; sense, substance; achievement, success”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]éifeachtach (genitive singular masculine éifeachtaigh, genitive singular feminine éifeachtaí, plural éifeachtacha, comparative éifeachtaí)
- forceful, significant; efficacious, effective; important
- great, powerful; highly capable
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | éifeachtach | éifeachtach | éifeachtacha | |
| vocative | éifeachtaigh | éifeachtacha | ||
| genitive | éifeachtaí | éifeachtacha | éifeachtach | |
| dative | éifeachtach | éifeachtach; éifeachtaigh (archaic) |
éifeachtacha | |
| Comparative | níos éifeachtaí | |||
| Superlative | is éifeachtaí | |||
Derived terms
[edit]- ainéifeachtach (“ineffective”, adjective)
- neamhéifeachtach (“ineffective; inefficient”, adjective)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| éifeachtach | n-éifeachtach | héifeachtach | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éifeachtach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éifechtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language