míbhéasach
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mí-bhéasach (supserseded)[1]
- mí-bheusach (obsolete)[2]
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish míbésach.[3] By surface analysis, mí- + béasach and míbhéas + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]míbhéasach (genitive singular masculine míbhéasaigh, genitive singular feminine míbhéasaí, plural míbhéasacha, comparative míbhéasaí)
- ill behaved
- ill-bred, ill-mannered
- incorrect (inappropriate, improper)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | míbhéasach | mhíbhéasach | míbhéasacha; mhíbhéasacha2 | |
| vocative | mhíbhéasaigh | míbhéasacha | ||
| genitive | míbhéasaí | míbhéasacha | míbhéasach | |
| dative | míbhéasach; mhíbhéasach1 |
mhíbhéasach; mhíbhéasaigh (archaic) |
míbhéasacha; mhíbhéasacha2 | |
| Comparative | níos míbhéasaí | |||
| Superlative | is míbhéasaí | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|
| míbhéasach | mhíbhéasach | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mí-ḃéasaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 481
- ^ “míbhéasach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “míbhéasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN