Cipireach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Cipir (“Cyprus”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]Cipireach (genitive singular masculine Cipirigh, genitive singular feminine Cipirí, plural Cipireacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | Cipireach | Chipireach | Cipireacha; Chipireacha2 | |
vocative | Chipirigh | Cipireacha | ||
genitive | Cipirí | Cipireacha | Cipireach | |
dative | Cipireach; Chipireach1 |
Chipireach; Chipirigh (archaic) |
Cipireacha; Chipireacha2 | |
Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
Superlative | (not comparable) |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
[edit]Cipireach m (genitive singular Cipirigh, nominative plural Cipirigh)
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Cipireach | Chipireach | gCipireach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Cipireach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “Cipireach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024