bacánach

Irish

Etymology

From bacán (“hinge hook”) +‎ -ach (adjective suffix).

Adjective

bacánach (genitive singular masculine bacánaigh, genitive singular feminine bacánaí, plural bacánacha, not comparable)

1. crooked, hinged

Declension

Declension of bacánach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	bacánach	bhacánach	bacánacha; bhacánacha2
vocative	bhacánaigh		bacánacha
genitive		bacánaí	bacánacha	bacánach
dative	bacánach; bhacánach1	bhacánach; bhacánaigh (archaic)	bacánacha; bhacánacha2
Comparative	níos bacánaí
Superlative	is bacánaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• alt bacánach m (“hinge joint”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bacánach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bacánach	bhacánach	mbacánach

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) “bacánach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bacánach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025