gearr-adharcach

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Irish

Etymology

From gearr- (“short”) +‎ adharc (“horn”) + -ach.

Adjective

gearr-adharcach (genitive singular masculine gearr-adharcaigh, genitive singular feminine gearr-adharcaí, plural gearr-adharcacha, not comparable)

  1. short-horned, shorthorn

Declension

Declension of gearr-adharcach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gearr-adharcach ghearr-adharcach gearr-adharcacha;
ghearr-adharcacha2
vocative ghearr-adharcaigh gearr-adharcacha
genitive gearr-adharcaí gearr-adharcacha gearr-adharcach
dative gearr-adharcach;
ghearr-adharcach1 		ghearr-adharcach;
ghearr-adharcaigh (archaic) 		gearr-adharcacha;
ghearr-adharcacha2
Comparative níos gearr-adharcaí
Superlative is gearr-adharcaí

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

Noun

gearr-adharcach m (genitive singular gearr-adharcaigh, nominative plural gearr-adharcaigh)

  1. shorthorn

Declension

Declension of gearr-adharcach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gearr-adharcach gearr-adharcaigh
vocative a ghearr-adharcaigh a ghearr-adharcacha
genitive gearr-adharcaigh gearr-adharcach
dative gearr-adharcach gearr-adharcaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gearr-adharcach na gearr-adharcaigh
genitive an ghearr-adharcaigh na ngearr-adharcach
dative leis an ngearr-adharcach
don ghearr-adharcach 		leis na gearr-adharcaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of gearr-adharcach
radical lenition eclipsis
gearr-adharcach ghearr-adharcach ngearr-adharcach

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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