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

Positive	singular		plural
	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