caitheamhach

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Irish

Adjective

caitheamhach (genitive singular masculine caitheamhaigh, genitive singular feminine caitheamhaí, plural caitheamhacha, comparative caitheamhaí)

  1. Alternative spelling of caifeach (“given to spending; prodigal, wasteful”)

Declension

Declension of caitheamhach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative caitheamhach chaitheamhach caitheamhacha;
chaitheamhacha²
Vocative chaitheamhaigh caitheamhacha
Genitive caitheamhaí caitheamhacha caitheamhach
Dative caitheamhach;
chaitheamhach¹ 		chaitheamhach;
chaitheamhaigh (archaic) 		caitheamhacha;
chaitheamhacha²
Comparative níos caitheamhaí
Superlative is caitheamhaí

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
caitheamhach chaitheamhach gcaitheamhach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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