anchúinsiúil

Irish

Etymology

From anchúinse (“monster, freak; scoundrel”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

anchúinsiúil (genitive singular masculine anchúinsiúil, genitive singular feminine anchúinsiúla, plural anchúinsiúla, comparative anchúinsiúla)

1. Alternative form of anchúinseach (“monstrous, abnormal; scoundrelly”)

Declension

Declension of anchúinsiúich

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	anchúinsiúich	anchúinsiúich	anchúinsiú
vocative	anchúinsiúich		anchúinsiú
genitive		anchúinsiú	anchúinsiú	anchúinsiúich
dative	anchúinsiúich	anchúinsiúich	anchúinsiú
Comparative	níos anchúinsiú
Superlative	is anchúinsiú

Mutation

Mutated forms of anchúinsiúil

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anchúinsiúil	n-anchúinsiúil	hanchúinsiúil	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anchúinseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN