beagmhisneach

Irish

Etymology

From beag- (“little, slight”) +‎ misneach (“courage”).

Noun

beagmhisneach m (genitive singular beagmhisnigh)

1. despondency

Declension

Declension of beagmhisneach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative beagmhisneach vocative a bheagmhisnigh genitive beagmhisnigh dative beagmhisneach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an beagmhisneach genitive an bheagmhisnigh dative leis an mbeagmhisneach don bheagmhisneach

Related terms

• beagmhisniúil (“despondent”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of beagmhisneach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
beagmhisneach	bheagmhisneach	mbeagmhisneach

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