míbhéasach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish míbésach.[3] By surface analysis, mí- +‎ béasach and míbhéas +‎ -ach.

Adjective

míbhéasach (genitive singular masculine míbhéasaigh, genitive singular feminine míbhéasaí, plural míbhéasacha, comparative míbhéasaí)

  1. ill behaved
  2. ill-bred, ill-mannered
  3. incorrect (inappropriate, improper)

Declension

Declension of míbhéasach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative míbhéasach mhíbhéasach míbhéasacha;
mhíbhéasacha2
vocative mhíbhéasaigh míbhéasacha
genitive míbhéasaí míbhéasacha míbhéasach
dative míbhéasach;
mhíbhéasach1 		mhíbhéasach;
mhíbhéasaigh (archaic) 		míbhéasacha;
mhíbhéasacha2
Comparative níos míbhéasaí
Superlative is míbhéasaí

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 míbhéasach
radical lenition eclipsis
míbhéasach mhíbhéasach not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mí-ḃéasaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 481
  2. ^ “míbhéasach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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