muineach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish muinech. By surface analysis, muine (“thicket”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

muineach (genitive singular masculine muinigh, genitive singular feminine muiní, plural muineacha, comparative muiní)

1. scrubby (covered in low growth)

Declension

Declension of muineach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine
nominative	muineach	mhuineach	muineacha; mhuineacha2
vocative	mhuinigh		muineacha
genitive		muiní	strong noun	weak noun
			muineacha	muineach
dative	muineach; mhuineach1	mhuineach; mhuinigh (archaic)	muineacha; mhuineacha2
Comparative	níos muiní
Superlative	is muiní

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

Noun

muineach m (genitive singular muinigh, nominative plural muinigh)

1. scrubland

Declension

Declension of muineach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative muineach muinigh vocative a mhuinigh a mhuineacha genitive muinigh muineach dative muineach muinigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an muineach na muinigh genitive an mhuinigh na muineach dative leis an muineach don mhuineach leis na muinigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of muineach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
muineach	mhuineach	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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muinech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language