dálach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dálach (“holding assemblies, frequenting meetings”), from dál (“meeting”). By surface analysis, dáil +‎ -ach.

Adjective

dálach (genitive singular masculine dálaigh, genitive singular feminine dálaí, plural dálacha, comparative dálaí)

1. (literary) fond of meetings

Declension

Declension of dálach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	dálach	dhálach	dálacha; dhálacha2
vocative	dhálaigh		dálacha
genitive		dálaí	dálacha	dálach
dative	dálach; dhálach1	dhálach; dhálaigh (archaic)	dálacha; dhálacha2
Comparative	níos dálaí
Superlative	is dálaí

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

• Ó Dálaigh (“O'Daly, O'Daley”)

Noun

dálach m (genitive singular dálaigh)

1. (literary) day of assembly

Declension

Declension of dálach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative dálach vocative a dhálaigh genitive dálaigh dative dálach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an dálach genitive an dálaigh dative leis an dálach don dálach

Derived terms

• Domhnach is dálach (“day in, day out; ceaselessly”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of dálach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dálach	dhálach	ndálach

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) “dálach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dálach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language