From beo (“alive; lively”) + súileach (“-eyed”).
beoshúileach (genitive singular masculine beoshúiligh, genitive singular feminine beoshúilí, plural beoshúileacha, comparative beoshúilí)
singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | beoshúileach | bheoshúileach | beoshúileacha; bheoshúileacha2 | |
vocative | bheoshúiligh | beoshúileacha | ||
genitive | beoshúilí | beoshúileacha | beoshúileach | |
dative | beoshúileach; bheoshúileach1 |
bheoshúileach; bheoshúiligh (archaic) |
beoshúileacha; bheoshúileacha2 | |
Comparative | níos beoshúilí | |||
Superlative | is beoshúilí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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beoshúileach | bheoshúileach | mbeoshúileach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.