airdeallach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From airdeall (“alertness, watchfulness; (act of) watching out”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]airdeallach (genitive singular masculine airdeallaigh, genitive singular feminine airdeallaí, plural airdeallacha, comparative airdeallaí)
- alert, watchful
- Synonym: (literary) cathaiseach
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | airdeallach | airdeallach | airdeallacha | |
vocative | airdeallaigh | airdeallacha | ||
genitive | airdeallaí | airdeallacha | airdeallach | |
dative | airdeallach | airdeallach; airdeallaigh (archaic) |
airdeallacha | |
Comparative | níos airdeallaí | |||
Superlative | is airdeallaí |
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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airdeallach | n-airdeallach | hairdeallach | 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) “airdeallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN