aicearrach
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish aithgirrach, an alternative form of aithgerr (“very short, very brief”, adjective). By surface analysis, aicearra + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]aicearrach (genitive singular masculine aicearraigh, genitive singular feminine aicearraí, plural aicearracha, comparative aicearraí)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | aicearrach | aicearrach | aicearracha | |
| vocative | aicearraigh | aicearracha | ||
| genitive | aicearraí | aicearracha | aicearrach | |
| dative | aicearrach | aicearrach; aicearraigh (archaic) |
aicearracha | |
| Comparative | níos aicearraí | |||
| Superlative | is aicearraí | |||
Related terms
[edit]- aicearracht f (“shortness”)
- aicearra m (“shortcut; abridgement”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| aicearrach | n-aicearrach | haicearrach | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aicearrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithgirrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithgerr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language