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adharcánach
adharcánach
Irish
Adjective
adharcánach (genitive singular masculine adharcánaigh, genitive singular feminine adharcánaí, plural adharcánacha, comparative adharcánaí)
- Alternative form of fadharcánach (“knotted, gnarled; callous; lumpy, protuberant”)
Declension
Declension of adharcánach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | adharcánach | adharcánach¹ | adharcánacha³ | |
| Vocative | adharcánaigh¹ | adharcánach¹ | adharcánacha | |
| Genitive | adharcánaigh¹ | adharcánaí (obsolete) adharcánaighe |
adharcánacha | adharcánach |
| Dative | adharcánach² | adharcánach¹ (archaic) adharcánaigh¹ |
adharcánacha³ | |
| Comparative | adharcánaí (obsolete) adharcánaighe |
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¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| adharcánach | n-adharcánach | hadharcánach | t-adharcánach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- "adharcánach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.