fo-bhailteach

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Irish

Etymology

From fo-bhailte (“suburbs; sub-townlands”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fo-bhailteach (genitive singular masculine fo-bhailtigh, genitive singular feminine fo-bhailtí, plural fo-bhailteacha, comparative fo-bhailtí)

  1. suburban
    Synonyms: bruachbhailteach, fo-uirbeach

Declension

Declension of fo-bhailteach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative fo-bhailteach fho-bhailteach fo-bhailteacha;
fho-bhailteacha2
vocative fho-bhailtigh fo-bhailteacha
genitive fo-bhailtí fo-bhailteacha fo-bhailteach
dative fo-bhailteach;
fho-bhailteach1 		fho-bhailteach;
fho-bhailtigh (archaic) 		fo-bhailteacha;
fho-bhailteacha2
Comparative níos fo-bhailtí
Superlative is fo-bhailtí

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

Noun

fo-bhailteach m (genitive singular fo-bhailtigh, nominative plural fo-bhailtigh)

  1. suburbanite
    Synonym: bruachbhailteach

Declension

Declension of fo-bhailteach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fo-bhailteach fo-bhailtigh
vocative a fho-bhailtigh a fho-bhailteacha
genitive fo-bhailtigh fo-bhailteach
dative fo-bhailteach fo-bhailtigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fo-bhailteach na fo-bhailtigh
genitive an fho-bhailtigh na bhfo-bhailteach
dative leis an bhfo-bhailteach
don fho-bhailteach 		leis na fo-bhailtigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of fo-bhailteach
radical lenition eclipsis
fo-bhailteach fho-bhailteach bhfo-bhailteach

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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