bruidheanach

Irish

Adjective

bruidheanach (genitive singular masculine bruidheanaigh, genitive singular feminine bruidheanaí, plural bruidheanacha, comparative bruidheanaí)

1. Obsolete spelling of bruíonach (“quarrelsome”).

Declension

Declension of bruidheanach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	bruidheanach	bhruidheanach	bruidheanacha; bhruidheanacha2
vocative	bhruidheanaigh		bruidheanacha
genitive		bruidheanaí	bruidheanacha	bruidheanach
dative	bruidheanach; bhruidheanach1	bhruidheanach; bhruidheanaigh (archaic)	bruidheanacha; bhruidheanacha2
Comparative	níos bruidheanaí
Superlative	is bruidheanaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of bruidheanach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bruidheanach	bhruidheanach	mbruidheanach

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