fo-artach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fo- (“sub-”) + Artach (“Arctic”).
Adjective
[edit]fo-artach (genitive singular masculine fo-artaigh, genitive singular feminine fo-artaí, plural fo-artacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | fo-artach | fho-artach | fo-artacha; fho-artacha2 | |
vocative | fho-artaigh | fo-artacha | ||
genitive | fo-artaí | fo-artacha | fo-artach | |
dative | fo-artach; fho-artach1 |
fho-artach; fho-artaigh (archaic) |
fo-artacha; fho-artacha2 | |
Comparative | níos fo-artaí | |||
Superlative | is fo-artaí |
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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fo-artach | fho-artach | bhfo-artach |
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) “fo-artach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “subarctic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024