Bailteach

Irish

Adjective

Bailteach (genitive singular masculine Bailtigh, genitive singular feminine Bailtí, plural Bailteacha, not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Baltach (“Baltic”)

Declension

Declension of Bailteach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	Bailteach	Bhailteach	Bailteacha; Bhailteacha2
vocative	Bhailtigh		Bailteacha
genitive		Bailtí	Bailteacha	Bailteach
dative	Bailteach; Bhailteach1	Bhailteach; Bhailtigh (archaic)	Bailteacha; Bhailteacha2
Comparative	níos Bailtí
Superlative	is Bailtí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of Bailteach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Bailteach	Bhailteach	mBailteach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Bailteach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm