dálach

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dálach (“holding assemblies, frequenting meetings”), from dál (“meeting”). By surface analysis, dáil +‎ -ach.

Adjective

dálach

  1. (literary) fond of meetings

Declension

Declension of dálach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative dálach dhálach dálacha;
dhálacha²
Vocative dhálaigh dálacha
Genitive dálaí dálacha dálach
Dative dálach;
dhálach¹ 		dhálach;
dhálaigh (archaic) 		dálacha;
dhálacha²
Comparative níos dálaí
Superlative is dálaí

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

Noun

dálach m (genitive singular dálaigh)

  1. (literary) day of assembly

Declension

Declension of dálach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative dálach
Vocative a dhálaigh
Genitive dálaigh
Dative dálach

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an dálach
Genitive an dálaigh
Dative leis an dálach

don dálach

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dálach dhálach ndálach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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