gearreireaballach

Irish

Etymology

From gearr- (“short”) + eireaball (“tail”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

gearreireaballach (genitive singular masculine gearreireaballaigh, genitive singular feminine gearreireaballaí, plural gearreireaballacha, comparative gearreireaballaí)

1. short-tailed
2. curtailed, scanty

Declension

Declension of gearreireaballach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	gearreireaballach	ghearreireaballach	gearreireaballacha; ghearreireaballacha2
vocative	ghearreireaballaigh		gearreireaballacha
genitive		gearreireaballaí	gearreireaballacha	gearreireaballach
dative	gearreireaballach; ghearreireaballach1	ghearreireaballach; ghearreireaballaigh (archaic)	gearreireaballacha; ghearreireaballacha2
Comparative	níos gearreireaballaí
Superlative	is gearreireaballaí

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 gearreireaballach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gearreireaballach	ghearreireaballach	ngearreireaballach

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) “gearreireaballach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “gearreireaballach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024