criosach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From crios (“belt, girdle; belt, area, region”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]criosach (genitive singular masculine criosaigh, genitive singular feminine criosaí, plural criosacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | criosach | chriosach | criosacha; chriosacha2 | |
vocative | chriosaigh | criosacha | ||
genitive | criosaí | criosacha | criosach | |
dative | criosach; chriosach1 |
chriosach; chriosaigh (archaic) |
criosacha; chriosacha2 | |
Comparative | níos criosaí | |||
Superlative | is criosaí |
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
[edit]- teoiric chriosach (“zonal theory”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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criosach | chriosach | gcriosach |
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]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “criosach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “criosach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025