cairdeach

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See also: càirdeach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cairdech.[3] By surface analysis, cara +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cairdeach (genitive singular masculine cairdigh, genitive singular feminine cairdí, plural cairdeacha, comparative cairdí)

  1. generous
  2. friendly
    Synonym: cairdiúil

Declension

Declension of cairdeach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cairdeach chairdeach cairdeacha;
chairdeacha2
vocative chairdigh cairdeacha
genitive cairdí cairdeacha cairdeach
dative cairdeach;
chairdeach1 		chairdeach;
chairdigh (archaic) 		cairdeacha;
chairdeacha2
Comparative níos cairdí
Superlative is cairdí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of cairdeach
radical lenition eclipsis
cairdeach chairdeach gcairdeach

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

References

  1. ^ “cairdeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cáirdeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 107
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cairdech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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