carthanach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish carthanach.[2] By surface analysis, carthain +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

carthanach (genitive singular masculine carthanaigh, genitive singular feminine carthanaí)

  1. kind, friendly, charitable
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Sé sin deagh-dhaoine a bhí maith, carthanach le chéile ar an tsaoghal so, ⁊ beidh an gléas maith sin orra go lá an bhreitheamhnais.
      They are good people who were kind and friendly towards each other in this world, and they will be in that happy state till the day of judgment.

Declension

Declension of carthanach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative carthanach charthanach carthanach;
charthanach2
vocative charthanaigh carthanach
genitive carthanaí carthanach carthanach
dative carthanach;
charthanach1 		charthanach;
charthanaigh (archaic) 		carthanach;
charthanach2
Comparative níos carthanaí
Superlative is carthanaí

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of carthanach
radical lenition eclipsis
carthanach charthanach gcarthanach

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

References

  1. ^ “carthanach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carthanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 49

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