From Old Irish gerbach (“scabby, mangy”). By surface analysis, gearb (“scab, mange”) + -ach.
gearbach (genitive singular masculine gearbaigh, genitive singular feminine gearbaí, plural gearbacha, comparative gearbaí)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| 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.
gearbach m (genitive singular gearbaigh)
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gearbach | ghearbach | ngearbach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||