abarach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From abar (“boggy ground, morass”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]abarach (genitive singular masculine abaraigh, genitive singular feminine abaraí, plural abaracha, comparative abaraí)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | abarach | abarach | abaracha | |
| vocative | abaraigh | abaracha | ||
| genitive | abaraí | abaracha | abarach | |
| dative | abarach | abarach; abaraigh (archaic) |
abaracha | |
| Comparative | níos abaraí | |||
| Superlative | is abaraí | |||
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| abarach | n-abarach | habarach | 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) “abarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “abarach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm