miadhach

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish míadach. By surface analysis, miadh +‎ -ach

Adjective

miadhach (genitive singular masculine miadhaigh, genitive singular feminine miadhaí, plural miadhacha, comparative miadhaí)

  1. (literary) honorable, noble, distinguished

Declension

Declension of miadhach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative miadhach mhiadhach miadhacha;
mhiadhacha²
Vocative mhiadhaigh miadhacha
Genitive miadhaí miadhacha miadhach
Dative miadhach;
mhiadhach¹ 		mhiadhach;
mhiadhaigh (archaic) 		miadhacha;
mhiadhacha²
Comparative níos miadhaí
Superlative is miadhaí

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

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “míadach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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