ballach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish ballach. By surface analysis, ball (“spot, mark”) + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ballach (genitive singular masculine ballaigh, genitive singular feminine ballaí, plural ballacha, comparative ballaí)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | ballach | bhallach | ballacha; bhallacha2 | |
vocative | bhallaigh | ballacha | ||
genitive | ballaí | ballacha | ballach | |
dative | ballach; bhallach1 |
bhallach; bhallaigh (archaic) |
ballacha; bhallacha2 | |
Comparative | níos ballaí | |||
Superlative | is ballaí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
[edit]ballach m (genitive singular ballaigh, nominative plural ballaigh)
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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ballach | bhallach | mballach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ballach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ballach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ballach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ballach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish ballach. By surface analysis, ball (“spot, mark”) + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ballach
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
---|---|
ballach | bhallach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ballach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- ga:Wrasses
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives