sladach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From slad (“plunder, pillage, loot; devastate, destroy”, verb) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]sladach (genitive singular masculine sladaigh, genitive singular feminine sladaí, plural sladacha, comparative sladaí)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | sladach | shladach | sladacha; shladacha2 | |
| vocative | shladaigh | sladacha | ||
| genitive | sladaí | sladacha | sladach | |
| dative | sladach; shladach1 |
shladach; shladaigh (archaic) |
sladacha; shladacha2 | |
| Comparative | níos sladaí | |||
| Superlative | is sladaí | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|
| sladach | shladach after an, tsladach |
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) “sladach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “plundering”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sladach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm