beathach
beathach m (genitive singular beathaigh, nominative plural beathaigh)
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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beathach (genitive singular masculine beathaigh, genitive singular feminine beathaí, plural beathacha, not comparable)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | beathach | bheathach | beathacha; bheathacha² | |
| Vocative | bheathaigh | beathacha | ||
| Genitive | beathaí | beathacha | beathach | |
| Dative | beathach; bheathach¹ |
bheathach; bheathaigh (archaic) |
beathacha; bheathacha² | |
| Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
| Superlative | (not comparable) | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| beathach | bheathach | mbeathach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
From Old Irish bethach, a variant of bethadach (“animal; creature”) (whence Irish beithíoch), from bethu, Middle Irish betha (“life”) + -ach.
beathach m (genitive singular beathaich, plural beathaichean)
| radical | lenition |
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| beathach | bheathach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.