cigilteach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cigilt (“tickle, titillation”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cigilteach (genitive singular masculine cigiltigh, genitive singular feminine cigiltí, plural cigilteacha, comparative cigiltí)

  1. ticklish

Declension

Declension of cigilteach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cigilteach chigilteach cigilteacha;
chigilteacha2
vocative chigiltigh cigilteacha
genitive cigiltí cigilteacha cigilteach
dative cigilteach;
chigilteach1 		chigilteach;
chigiltigh (archaic) 		cigilteacha;
chigilteacha2
Comparative níos cigiltí
Superlative is cigiltí

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

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cigilteach chigilteach gcigilteach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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