Portaingéalach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From An Phortaingéil (“Portugal”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]Portaingéalach (genitive singular masculine Portaingéalaigh, genitive singular feminine Portaingéalaí, plural Portaingéalacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | Portaingéalach | Phortaingéalach | Portaingéalacha; Phortaingéalacha2 | |
vocative | Phortaingéalaigh | Portaingéalacha | ||
genitive | Portaingéalaí | Portaingéalacha | Portaingéalach | |
dative | Portaingéalach; Phortaingéalach1 |
Phortaingéalach; Phortaingéalaigh (archaic) |
Portaingéalacha; Phortaingéalacha2 | |
Comparative | níos Portaingéalaí | |||
Superlative | is Portaingéalaí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Related terms
[edit]- Poblacht na Portaingéile (“the Republic of Portugal”)
- Portaingéilis (“the Portuguese language”)
Noun
[edit]Portaingéalach m (genitive singular Portaingéalaigh, nominative plural Portaingéalaigh)
- Portuguese person
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Portaingéalach | Phortaingéalach | bPortaingéalach |
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) “Portaingéalach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Portaingéalach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “Portaingéalach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025