cithréimeach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

By surface analysis, cithréim +‎ -ach, but since the adjective is attested earlier, the noun may be a back-formation. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic ciorramach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cithréimeach (genitive singular masculine cithréimigh, genitive singular feminine cithréimí, plural cithréimeacha, comparative cithréimí)

  1. maimed, disabled
  2. abject
  3. (nominalized, masculine) disabled person

Declension

Declension of cithréimeach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cithréimeach chithréimeach cithréimeacha;
chithréimeacha2
vocative chithréimigh cithréimeacha
genitive cithréimí cithréimeacha cithréimeach
dative cithréimeach;
chithréimeach1 		chithréimeach;
chithréimigh (archaic) 		cithréimeacha;
chithréimeacha2
Comparative níos cithréimí
Superlative is cithréimí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of cithréimeach
radical lenition eclipsis
cithréimeach chithréimeach gcithréimeach

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

References

  1. ^ “cithréimeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cithrumach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98

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