sonach

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

sonach (genitive singular masculine sonaigh, genitive singular feminine sonaí, plural sonacha, comparative sonaí)

1. sonic

Declension

Declension of sonach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	sonach	shonach	sonacha; shonacha2
vocative	shonaigh		sonacha
genitive		sonaí	sonacha	sonach
dative	sonach; shonach1	shonach; shonaigh (archaic)	sonacha; shonacha2
Comparative	níos sonaí
Superlative	is sonaí

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

Derived terms

• foshonach (“subsonic”, adjective)
• tormán sonach (“sonic boom”)
• ultrasonach (“ultrasonic”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of sonach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sonach	shonach after an, tsonach	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sonach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “sonic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔnax]

Noun

sonach

1. locative plural of son