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Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
ceamach f (genitive singular ceamaí, nominative plural ceamacha)
- rag, clout (piece of cloth)
- (in the plural) rags, tattered old clothes
- lout (bumpkin)
- slattern, slut, untidy or ragged person
- Synonym: abarlach
Declension
Derived terms
Adjective
ceamach (genitive singular masculine ceamaigh, genitive singular feminine ceamaí, plural ceamacha, comparative ceamaí)
- ragged (rent or worn into tatters), tattered
- Synonyms: gioblach, bratógach
- sluttish (dirty or untidy; disorderly), slovenly
- Synonyms: sraoilleach, gioblach, giobógach
Declension
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
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| ceamach
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cheamach
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gceamach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- “ceamach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ciomaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 139
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceamach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN