From Old Irish mallachtach (“accursed”). By surface analysis, mallacht (“curse”, noun) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
mallachtach (genitive singular masculine mallachtaigh, genitive singular feminine mallachtaí, plural mallachtacha, comparative mallachtaí)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | mallachtach | mhallachtach | mallachtacha; mhallachtacha² | |
| Vocative | mhallachtaigh | mallachtacha | ||
| Genitive | mallachtaí | mallachtacha | mallachtach | |
| Dative | mallachtach; mhallachtach¹ |
mhallachtach; mhallachtaigh (archaic) |
mallachtacha; mhallachtacha² | |
| Comparative | níos mallachtaí | |||
| Superlative | is mallachtaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
mallachtach f (genitive singular mallachtaí)
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Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mallachtach | mhallachtach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||