cnocach

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cnoccach (“hilly”). By surface analysis, cnoc +‎ -ach.

Adjective

cnocach (genitive singular masculine cnocaigh, genitive singular feminine cnocaí, plural cnocacha, comparative cnocaí)

  1. hilly

Declension

Declension of cnocach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cnocach chnocach cnocacha;
chnocacha2
vocative chnocaigh cnocacha
genitive cnocaí cnocacha cnocach
dative cnocach;
chnocach1 		chnocach;
chnocaigh (archaic) 		cnocacha;
chnocacha2
Comparative níos cnocaí
Superlative is cnocaí

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

Noun

cnocach m (genitive singular cnocaigh, nominative plural cnocaigh)

  1. a hilly place
    • c. 1634, Geoffrey Keating, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn:
      Ard na nGeimhleach ré ráidhtear an Chnocach aniú
      "Ard na nGeaimhleach , which is now called An Chnocach )"

Declension

Declension of cnocach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cnocach cnocaigh
vocative a chnocaigh a chnocacha
genitive cnocaigh cnocach
dative cnocach cnocaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cnocach na cnocaigh
genitive an chnocaigh na gcnocach
dative leis an gcnocach
don chnocach 		leis na cnocaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of cnocach
radical lenition eclipsis
cnocach chnocach gcnocach

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

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