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Biosántach

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Irish

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Etymology

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From an Bhiosáint +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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Biosántach (genitive singular masculine Biosántaigh, genitive singular feminine Biosántaí, plural Biosántacha)

  1. Byzantine

Declension

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Declension of Biosántach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative Biosántach Bhiosántach Biosántacha;
Bhiosántacha2
vocative Bhiosántaigh Biosántacha
genitive Biosántaí Biosántacha Biosántach
dative Biosántach;
Bhiosántach1
Bhiosántach;
Bhiosántaigh (archaic)
Biosántacha;
Bhiosántacha2
Comparative níos Biosántaí
Superlative is Biosántaí

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

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Noun

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Biosántach m (genitive singular Biosántaigh, nominative plural Biosántaigh)

  1. Byzantine

Declension

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Declension of Biosántach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative Biosántach Biosántaigh
vocative a Bhiosántaigh a Bhiosántacha
genitive Biosántaigh Biosántach
dative Biosántach Biosántaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an Biosántach na Biosántaigh
genitive an Bhiosántaigh na mBiosántach
dative leis an mBiosántach
don Bhiosántach
leis na Biosántaigh

Mutation

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Mutated forms of Biosántach
radical lenition eclipsis
Biosántach Bhiosántach mBiosántach

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

References

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