gríobhach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish gríbach, from gríb (“griffin”). By surface analysis, gríobh + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]gríobhach (genitive singular masculine gríobhaigh, genitive singular feminine gríobhaí, plural gríobhacha, comparative gríobhaí)
- griffin-like
- Synonym: gríofa
- fierce, formidable
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | gríobhach | ghríobhach | gríobhacha; ghríobhacha2 | |
| vocative | ghríobhaigh | gríobhacha | ||
| genitive | gríobhaí | gríobhacha | gríobhach | |
| dative | gríobhach; ghríobhach1 |
ghríobhach; ghríobhaigh (archaic) |
gríobhacha; ghríobhacha2 | |
| Comparative | níos gríobhaí | |||
| Superlative | is gríobhaí | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|
| gríobhach | ghríobhach | ngríobhach |
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) “gríobhach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gríbach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language