Pailéiliteach

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Irish

Etymology

From pailé- (“palaeo-”) +‎ -lit (“-lith”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

Pailéiliteach (genitive singular masculine Pailéilitigh, genitive singular feminine Pailéilití, plural Pailéiliteacha, not comparable)

  1. Palaeolithic

Declension

Declension of Pailéiliteach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative Pailéiliteach Phailéiliteach Pailéiliteacha;
Phailéiliteacha2
vocative Phailéilitigh Pailéiliteacha
genitive Pailéilití Pailéiliteacha Pailéiliteach
dative Pailéiliteach;
Phailéiliteach1 		Phailéiliteach;
Phailéilitigh (archaic) 		Pailéiliteacha;
Phailéiliteacha2
Comparative níos Pailéilití
Superlative is Pailéilití

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Pailéiliteach Phailéiliteach bPailéiliteach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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