ceamach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

ceamach f (genitive singular ceamaí, nominative plural ceamacha)

  1. rag, clout (piece of cloth)
  2. (in the plural) rags, tattered old clothes
  3. lout (bumpkin)
  4. slattern, slut, untidy or ragged person
    Synonym: abarlach

Declension

Declension of ceamach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ceamach ceamacha
vocative a cheamach a cheamacha
genitive ceamaí ceamach
dative ceamach
ceamaigh (archaic, dialectal) 		ceamacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cheamach na ceamacha
genitive na ceamaí na gceamach
dative leis an gceamach
leis an gceamaigh (archaic, dialectal)
don cheamach
don cheamaigh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na ceamacha

Derived terms

Adjective

ceamach (genitive singular masculine ceamaigh, genitive singular feminine ceamaí, plural ceamacha, comparative ceamaí)

  1. ragged (rent or worn into tatters), tattered
    Synonyms: gioblach, bratógach
  2. sluttish (dirty or untidy; disorderly), slovenly
    Synonyms: sraoilleach, gioblach, giobógach

Declension

Declension of ceamach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative ceamach cheamach ceamacha;
cheamacha2
vocative cheamaigh ceamacha
genitive ceamaí ceamacha ceamach
dative ceamach;
cheamach1 		cheamach;
cheamaigh (archaic) 		ceamacha;
cheamacha2
Comparative níos ceamaí
Superlative is ceamaí

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

Alternative forms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceamach
radical lenition eclipsis
ceamach cheamach gceamach

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 97, page 38

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