Borrowed from English colorectal + -ach (compare reicteach (“rectal”)).
colaireicteach (genitive singular masculine colaireictigh, genitive singular feminine colaireictí, plural colaireicteacha, not comparable)
singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | colaireicteach | cholaireicteach | colaireicteacha; cholaireicteacha2 | |
vocative | cholaireictigh | colaireicteacha | ||
genitive | colaireictí | colaireicteacha | colaireicteach | |
dative | colaireicteach; cholaireicteach1 |
cholaireicteach; cholaireictigh (archaic) |
colaireicteacha; cholaireicteacha2 | |
Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
Superlative | (not comparable) |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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colaireicteach | cholaireicteach | gcolaireicteach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.