aintéineach

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Irish

Etymology

From aintéine (“antenna”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

aintéineach (genitive singular masculine aintéinigh, genitive singular feminine aintéiní, plural aintéineacha, not comparable)

  1. (zoology) antennal

Declension

Declension of aintéineach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative aintéineach aintéineach aintéineacha
vocative aintéinigh aintéineacha
genitive aintéiní aintéineacha aintéineach
dative aintéineach aintéineach;
aintéinigh (archaic) 		aintéineacha
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aintéineach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aintéineach n-aintéineach haintéineach not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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