beannachtach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bennachtach. By surface analysis, beannacht (“blessing; benediction”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

beannachtach (genitive singular masculine beannachtaigh, genitive singular feminine beannachtaí, plural beannachtacha, comparative beannachtaí)

1. (literary) blessed; benign; prosperous

Declension

Declension of beannachtach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	beannachtach	bheannachtach	beannachtacha; bheannachtacha2
vocative	bheannachtaigh		beannachtacha
genitive		beannachtaí	beannachtacha	beannachtach
dative	beannachtach; bheannachtach1	bheannachtach; bheannachtaigh (archaic)	beannachtacha; bheannachtacha2
Comparative	níos beannachtaí
Superlative	is beannachtaí

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

• buíoch beannachtach (“effusively grateful”)

Noun

beannachtach f (genitive singular beannachtaí)

1. (act of) calling down blessings

Declension

Declension of beannachtach (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative beannachtach vocative a bheannachtach genitive beannachtaí dative beannachtach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bheannachtach genitive na beannachtaí dative leis an mbeannachtach don bheannachtach

Related terms

• beannaigh (“bless; greet”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of beannachtach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
beannachtach	bheannachtach	mbeannachtach

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) “beannachtach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bennachtach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language