meatonaimeach

Irish

From Ancient Greek μετωνυμία (metōnumía, “change of name”) (synchronically, meatonaime (“metonymy”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix)), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).

meatonaimeach (genitive singular masculine meatonaimigh, genitive singular feminine meatonaimí, plural meatonaimeacha, comparative meatonaimí)

Declension of *meatonaimeach*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	meatonaimeach	mheatonaimeach	meatonaimeacha; mheatonaimeacha²
vocative	mheatonaimigh	mheatonaimeach	meatonaimeacha
genitive	mheatonaimigh	meatonaimí	meatonaimeacha	meatonaimeach
dative	meatonaimeach; mheatonaimeach¹	mheatonaimeach; mheatonaimigh (archaic)	meatonaimeacha; mheatonaimeacha²
Comparative	níos meatonaimí
Superlative	is meatonaimí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutated forms of *meatonaimeach*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
meatonaimeach	mheatonaimeach	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.