beusach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beusach (genitive singular masculine beusaigh, genitive singular feminine beusaighe, plural beusacha, comparative beusaigh)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | beusach | bheusach | beusacha; bheusacha2 | |
vocative | bheusaigh | beusacha | ||
genitive | beusaighe | beusacha | beusach | |
dative | beusach; bheusach1 |
bheusach; bheusaigh (archaic) |
beusacha; bheusacha2 | |
Comparative | níos beusaighe | |||
Superlative | is beusaighe |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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beusach | bheusach | mbeusach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From beus + -ach. Compare Irish béasach
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beusach
- continent, decorous, mannerly, moral, virtuous, well-behaved, well-bred
- Antonyms: ainbheusach, mì-bheusach
Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Categories:
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish obsolete forms
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰendʰ-
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives