Pailéiliteach

Irish

Etymology

From pailé- (“palaeo-”) +‎ -lit (“-lith”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

Pailéiliteach (genitive singular masculine Pailéilitigh, genitive singular feminine Pailéilití, plural Pailéiliteacha, not comparable)

1. Palaeolithic

Declension

Declension of Pailéiliteach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	Pailéiliteach	Phailéiliteach	Pailéiliteacha; Phailéiliteacha2
vocative	Phailéilitigh		Pailéiliteacha
genitive		Pailéilití	Pailéiliteacha	Pailéiliteach
dative	Pailéiliteach; Phailéiliteach1	Phailéiliteach; Phailéilitigh (archaic)	Pailéiliteacha; Phailéiliteacha2
Comparative	níos Pailéilití
Superlative	is Pailéilití

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 Pailéiliteach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Pailéiliteach	Phailéiliteach	bPailéiliteach

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) “Pailéiliteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Pailéiliteach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm