gréasach

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Irish

Etymology 1

From gréas (“ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation; decorative design, pattern, figure; needlework, embroidery”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

gréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)

  1. patterned, embroidered, ornamented
  2. skilled in embroidery

Etymology 2

From Old Irish grésach (“lasting, perpetual, constant, habitual”, adjective). Compare de ghréas (“habitually, continually, perpetually”).

Adjective

gréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)

  1. (literary) habitual, continual, perpetual

Declension

Declension of gréasach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gréasach ghréasach gréasacha;
ghréasacha2
vocative ghréasaigh gréasacha
genitive gréasaí gréasacha gréasach
dative gréasach;
ghréasach1 		ghréasach;
ghréasaigh (archaic) 		gréasacha;
ghréasacha2
Comparative níos gréasaí
Superlative is gréasaí

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 gréasach
radical lenition eclipsis
gréasach ghréasach ngréasach

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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