barrthais
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From barr- + tais (“damp, moist, humid; soft, smooth, tender”).
Adjective
[edit]barrthais (genitive singular masculine barrthais, genitive singular feminine barrthaise, plural barrthaise, comparative barrthaise)
Declension
[edit]Declension of barrthais
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | barrthais | bharrthais | barrthaise; bharrthaise² | |
| Vocative | bharrthais | barrthaise | ||
| Genitive | barrthaise | barrthaise | barrthais | |
| Dative | barrthais; bharrthais¹ |
bharrthais | barrthaise; bharrthaise² | |
| Comparative | níos barrthaise | |||
| Superlative | is barrthaise | |||
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]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| barrthais | bharrthais | mbarrthais |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barrthais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barrthais”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm