Beidiúnach

Irish

Etymology

From English bedouin +‎ -ach

Adjective

Beidiúnach (genitive singular masculine Beidiúnaigh, genitive singular feminine Beidiúnaí, plural Beidiúnacha, not comparable)

1. bedouin

Declension

Declension of Beidiúnach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	Beidiúnach	Bheidiúnach	Beidiúnacha; Bheidiúnacha2
vocative	Bheidiúnaigh		Beidiúnacha
genitive		Beidiúnaí	Beidiúnacha	Beidiúnach
dative	Beidiúnach; Bheidiúnach1	Bheidiúnach; Bheidiúnaigh (archaic)	Beidiúnacha; Bheidiúnacha2
Comparative	níos Beidiúnaí
Superlative	is Beidiúnaí

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

Noun

Beidiúnach m (genitive singular Beidiúnaigh, nominative plural Beidiúnaigh)

1. bedouin

Declension

Declension of Beidiúnach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Beidiúnach Beidiúnaigh vocative a Bheidiúnaigh a Bheidiúnacha genitive Beidiúnaigh Beidiúnach dative Beidiúnach Beidiúnaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an Beidiúnach na Beidiúnaigh genitive an Bheidiúnaigh na mBeidiúnach dative leis an mBeidiúnach don Bheidiúnach leis na Beidiúnaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of Beidiúnach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Beidiúnach	Bheidiúnach	mBeidiúnach

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Beidiúnach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN