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

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	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