bruíontach
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Irish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bruíontach (genitive singular masculine bruíontaigh, genitive singular feminine bruíontaí, plural bruíontacha, comparative bruíontaí)
- Alternative form of bruíonach (“quarrelsome”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bruíontach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | bruíontach | bhruíontach | bruíontacha; bhruíontacha² | |
| Vocative | bhruíontaigh | bruíontacha | ||
| Genitive | bruíontaí | bruíontacha | bruíontach | |
| Dative | bruíontach; bhruíontach¹ |
bhruíontach; bhruíontaigh (archaic) |
bruíontacha; bhruíontacha² | |
| Comparative | níos bruíontaí | |||
| Superlative | is bruíontaí | |||
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]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bruíontach | bhruíontach | mbruíontach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruíonach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN