baintreachas

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From baintreach +‎ -as

Noun

baintreachas m (genitive singular baintreachais)

  1. widowhood, widowerhood

Declension

Declension of baintreachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative baintreachas
vocative a bhaintreachais
genitive baintreachais
dative baintreachas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an baintreachas
genitive an bhaintreachais
dative leis an mbaintreachas
don bhaintreachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of baintreachas
radical lenition eclipsis
baintreachas bhaintreachas mbaintreachas

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “baintreaḃaċas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 49
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “baintrebthachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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