ingearach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ingear (“perpendicular”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]ingearach (genitive singular masculine ingearaigh, genitive singular feminine ingearaí, plural ingearacha, not comparable)
- perpendicular, vertical, upright; plumb, sheer
- (geometry, mathematics, statistics, software engineering) orthogonal
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | ingearach | ingearach | ingearacha | |
| vocative | ingearaigh | ingearacha | ||
| genitive | ingearaí | ingearacha | ingearach | |
| dative | ingearach | ingearach; ingearaigh (archaic) |
ingearacha | |
| Comparative | níos ingearaí | |||
| Superlative | is ingearaí | |||
Synonyms
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[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| ingearach | n-ingearach | hingearach | 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]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ingearach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “perpendicular”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “upright”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “vertical”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024