droch-chruthach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From droch- (“bad; poor, evil; ill-, un-”) +‎ cruth (“shape”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

droch-chruthach (genitive singular masculine droch-chruthaigh, genitive singular feminine droch-chruthaí, plural droch-chruthacha)

  1. of bad appearance

Declension

Declension of droch-chruthach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative droch-chruthach dhroch-chruthach droch-chruthacha;
dhroch-chruthacha2
vocative dhroch-chruthaigh droch-chruthacha
genitive droch-chruthaí droch-chruthacha droch-chruthach
dative droch-chruthach;
dhroch-chruthach1 		dhroch-chruthach;
dhroch-chruthaigh (archaic) 		droch-chruthacha;
dhroch-chruthacha2
Comparative níos droch-chruthaí
Superlative is droch-chruthaí

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 droch-chruthach
radical lenition eclipsis
droch-chruthach dhroch-chruthach ndroch-chruthach

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

References

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