imeaglach

Irish

Etymology

From imeagla (“great fear, terror, dread”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

imeaglach (genitive singular masculine imeaglaigh, genitive singular feminine imeaglaí, plural imeaglacha, comparative imeaglaí)

1. fearful, frightened
2. dreadful, terrible

Declension

Declension of imeaglach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	imeaglach	imeaglach	imeaglacha
vocative	imeaglaigh		imeaglacha
genitive		imeaglaí	imeaglacha	imeaglach
dative	imeaglach	imeaglach; imeaglaigh (archaic)	imeaglacha
Comparative	níos imeaglaí
Superlative	is imeaglaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of imeaglach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeaglach	n-imeaglach	himeaglach	not applicable

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) “imeaglach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “imeaglach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm