inchurtha
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inchurtha
- able to be X'ed where X is any of the senses of cuir, including in a wide variety of idioms, for example:
- tillable
- inchurtha i bhfeidhm (“enforceable”), from cuir i bhfeidhm (“to enforce”)
- inchurtha ar ais (“returnable”), from cuir ar ais (“to return”)
- inchurtha in iúl (“communicable”), from cuir in iúl (“to communicate”)
- being a match [with le ‘for’], comparable [with le ‘to’]
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | inchurtha | inchurtha | inchurtha | |
| vocative | inchurtha | inchurtha | ||
| genitive | inchurtha | inchurtha | inchurtha | |
| dative | inchurtha | inchurtha | inchurtha | |
| Comparative | níos inchurtha | |||
| Superlative | is inchurtha | |||
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| inchurtha | n-inchurtha | hinchurtha | 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
[edit]- “inchurtha”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ionċurṫa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 407
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “inchurtha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40
