Sibéarach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an tSibéir (“Siberia”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]Sibéarach (genitive singular masculine Sibéaraigh, genitive singular feminine Sibéaraí, plural Sibéaracha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | Sibéarach | Shibéarach | Sibéaracha; Shibéaracha2 | |
vocative | Shibéaraigh | Sibéaracha | ||
genitive | Sibéaraí | Sibéaracha | Sibéarach | |
dative | Sibéarach; Shibéarach1 |
Shibéarach; Shibéaraigh (archaic) |
Sibéaracha; Shibéaracha2 | |
Comparative | níos Sibéaraí | |||
Superlative | is Sibéaraí |
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]Sibéarach m (genitive singular Sibéaraigh, nominative plural Sibéaraigh)
- Siberian person
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Sibéarach | Shibéarach after an, tSibéarach |
not applicable |
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) “Sibéarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Sibéarach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm