amfaibiach

Irish

Etymology

From Latin amphibius (from Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιον (amphíbion), from ἀμφι- (amphi-, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)) + -ach.

Adjective

amfaibiach (genitive singular masculine amfaibiach, genitive singular feminine amfaibiaiche, plural amfaibiacha, comparative amfaibiaiche)

1. amphibious

   Synonyms: débheathach, loscánta

Declension

Declension of amfaibiach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	amfaibiach	amfaibiach	amfaibiacha
vocative	amfaibiach		amfaibiacha
genitive		amfaibiaiche	amfaibiacha	amfaibiach
dative	amfaibiach	amfaibiach	amfaibiacha
Comparative	níos amfaibiaiche
Superlative	is amfaibiaiche

Noun

amfaibiach m (genitive singular amfaibiaigh, nominative plural amfaibiaigh)

1. amphibian

   Synonym: débheathach

Declension

Declension of amfaibiach (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative amfaibiach amfaibiaigh vocative a amfaibiaigh a amfaibiacha genitive amfaibiaigh amfaibiach dative amfaibiach amfaibiaigh forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-amfaibiach na hamfaibiaigh genitive an amfaibiaigh na n-amfaibiach dative leis an amfaibiach don amfaibiach leis na hamfaibiaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of amfaibiach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amfaibiach	n-amfaibiach	hamfaibiach	t-amfaibiach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amfaibiach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “amfaibiach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “amfaibiach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025