buirgéiseach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman burgeis + -ach.
Noun
[edit]buirgéiseach m (genitive singular buirgéisigh, nominative plural buirgéisigh)
- burgess (inhabitant of a borough with full rights)
Declension
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Adjective
[edit]buirgéiseach (genitive singular masculine buirgéisigh, genitive singular feminine buirgéisí, comparative buirgéisí)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | buirgéiseach | bhuirgéiseach | buirgéiseacha; bhuirgéiseacha2 | |
vocative | bhuirgéiseaigh | buirgéiseacha | ||
genitive | buirgéiseaí | buirgéiseacha | buirgéiseach | |
dative | buirgéiseach; bhuirgéiseach1 |
bhuirgéiseach; bhuirgéiseaigh (archaic) |
buirgéiseacha; bhuirgéiseacha2 | |
Comparative | níos buirgéiseaí | |||
Superlative | is buirgéiseaí |
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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buirgéiseach | bhuirgéiseach | mbuirgéiseach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “buirgéiseach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “buirgéisech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “buirgéiseach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buirgéiseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerǵʰ-
- Irish terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish adjectives
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