cráifeach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cráibdech, cráifech (“pious, faithful”), from crábud (“piety, devotion, religion”) + -ach (compare modern crábhadh).[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

cráifeach (genitive singular masculine cráifigh, genitive singular feminine cráifí, plural cráifeacha, comparative cráifí)

  1. religious
  2. pious, devout

Declension

Declension of cráifeach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative cráifeach chráifeach cráifeacha;
chráifeacha²
Vocative chráifigh cráifeacha
Genitive cráifí cráifeacha cráifeach
Dative cráifeach;
chráifeach¹ 		chráifeach;
chráifigh (archaic) 		cráifeacha;
chráifeacha²
Comparative níos cráifí
Superlative is cráifí

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

  • crábhadh m (“religious practice; piety, devotion”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cráifeach chráifeach gcráifeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “cráifeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cráibdech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 319, page 112

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