baintreachas

Irish

Alternative forms

• baintreabhachas (superseded)
• baintrebhthachas (obsolete)

Etymology

From baintreach +‎ -as

Noun

baintreachas m (genitive singular baintreachais)

1. widowhood, widowerhood

Declension

Declension of baintreachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative baintreachas vocative a bhaintreachais genitive baintreachais dative baintreachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an baintreachas genitive an bhaintreachais dative leis an mbaintreachas don bhaintreachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of baintreachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
baintreachas	bhaintreachas	mbaintreachas

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) “baintreachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN