gearbach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish gerbach (“scabby, mangy”).[1] By surface analysis, gearb (“scab, mange”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gearbach (genitive singular masculine gearbaigh, genitive singular feminine gearbaí, plural gearbacha, comparative gearbaí)

  1. scabby, mangy

Declension

Declension of gearbach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gearbach ghearbach gearbacha;
ghearbacha2
vocative ghearbaigh gearbacha
genitive gearbaí gearbacha gearbach
dative gearbach;
ghearbach1 		ghearbach;
ghearbaigh (archaic) 		gearbacha;
ghearbacha2
Comparative níos gearbaí
Superlative is gearbaí

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

Noun

gearbach m (genitive singular gearbaigh)

  1. (horticulture) scab

Declension

Declension of gearbach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative gearbach
vocative a ghearbaigh
genitive gearbaigh
dative gearbach
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an gearbach
genitive an ghearbaigh
dative leis an ngearbach
don ghearbach

Mutation

Mutated forms of gearbach
radical lenition eclipsis
gearbach ghearbach ngearbach

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gerbach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 132

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