beithíoch

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish bethadach (“animal”). Compare Scottish Gaelic beathach (“animal”), beithir (“beast, monster, bear”).

Pronunciation

Noun

beithíoch m (genitive singular beithígh, nominative plural beithígh)

  1. beast
  2. (large) animal
  3. brute; (large) specimen of creature
  4. bovine animal; heifer, cow
  5. (in the plural) cattle
  6. horse

Declension

Declension of beithíoch (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative beithíoch beithígh
vocative a bheithígh a bheithíocha
genitive beithígh beithíoch
dative beithíoch beithígh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an beithíoch na beithígh
genitive an bheithígh na mbeithíoch
dative leis an mbeithíoch
don bheithíoch 		leis na beithígh

Mutation

Mutated forms of beithíoch
radical lenition eclipsis
beithíoch bheithíoch mbeithíoch

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 44
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 10

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