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creidmheach

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cretmech.[2] By surface analysis, creideamh +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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creidmheach m (genitive singular creidmhigh, nominative plural creidmhigh)

  1. believer

Declension

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Declension of creidmheach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative creidmheach creidmhigh
Vocative a chreidmhigh a chreidmheacha
Genitive creidmhigh creidmheach
Dative creidmheach creidmhigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an creidmheach na creidmhigh
Genitive an chreidmhigh na gcreidmheach
Dative leis an gcreidmheach

don chreidmheach

leis na creidmhigh

Derived terms

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both nouns and adjectives

Adjective

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creidmheach (genitive singular masculine creidmhigh, genitive singular feminine creidmhí, plural creidmheacha, comparative creidhmhí)

  1. believing, faithful

Declension

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Declension of creidmheach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative creidmheach chreidmheach creidmheacha;
chreidmheacha²
Vocative chreidmhigh creidmheacha
Genitive creidmhí creidmheacha creidmheach
Dative creidmheach;
chreidmheach¹ 		chreidmheach;
chreidmhigh (archaic) 		creidmheacha;
chreidmheacha²
Comparative níos creidmhí
Superlative is creidmhí

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

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
creidmheach chreidmheach gcreidmheach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “creidmheach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “creitmech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cretmech.[1] By surface analysis, creideamh +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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creidmheach m (genitive singular creidmhich, plural creidmhich)

  1. believer

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
creidmheach chreidmheach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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