cabach

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Irish

Etymology

From cab +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cabach (genitive singular masculine cabaigh, genitive singular feminine cabaí, plural cabacha, comparative cabaí)

  1. loquacious, babbling, garrulous

Declension

Declension of cabach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cabach chabach cabacha;
chabacha2
vocative chabaigh cabacha
genitive cabaí cabacha cabach
dative cabach;
chabach1 		chabach;
chabaigh (archaic) 		cabacha;
chabacha2
Comparative níos cabaí
Superlative is cabaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cabach
radical lenition eclipsis
cabach chabach gcabach

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “cabach”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 415, page 136

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