meisiasach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Meisias (“Messiah”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]meisiasach (genitive singular masculine meisiasaigh, genitive singular feminine meisiasaí, plural meisiasacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of meisiasach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | meisiasach | mheisiasach | meisiasacha; mheisiasacha² | |
| Vocative | mheisiasaigh | meisiasacha | ||
| Genitive | meisiasaí | meisiasacha | meisiasach | |
| Dative | meisiasach; mheisiasach¹ |
mheisiasach; mheisiasaigh (archaic) |
meisiasacha; mheisiasacha² | |
| Comparative | níos meisiasaí | |||
| Superlative | is meisiasaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Related terms
[edit]- meisiasacht f (“messianism”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| meisiasach | mheisiasach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meisiasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN