faitcheasach

Irish

Adjective

faitcheasach (genitive singular masculine faitcheasaigh, genitive singular feminine faitcheasaí, plural faitcheasacha, comparative faitcheasaí)

1. Obsolete spelling of faitíosach (“fearful, apprehensive; timid, shy”).

Declension

Declension of faitcheasach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	faitcheasach	fhaitcheasach	faitcheasacha; fhaitcheasacha2
vocative	fhaitcheasaigh		faitcheasacha
genitive		faitcheasaí	faitcheasacha	faitcheasach
dative	faitcheasach; fhaitcheasach1	fhaitcheasach; fhaitcheasaigh (archaic)	faitcheasacha; fhaitcheasacha2
Comparative	níos faitcheasaí
Superlative	is faitcheasaí

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 faitcheasach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
faitcheasach	fhaitcheasach	bhfaitcheasach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN