bacánach

Irish

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

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

Declension of *bacánach*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	bacánach	bhacánach	bacánacha; bhacánacha²
vocative	bhacánaigh	bhacánach	bacánacha
genitive	bhacánaigh	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.

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.