From pleora (“pleura”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
pleorach (genitive singular masculine pleoraigh, genitive singular feminine pleoraí, plural pleoracha, not comparable)
singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | pleorach | phleorach | pleoracha; phleoracha2 | |
vocative | phleoraigh | pleoracha | ||
genitive | pleoraí | pleoracha | pleorach | |
dative | pleorach; phleorach1 |
phleorach; phleoraigh (archaic) |
pleoracha; phleoracha2 | |
Comparative | níos pleoraí | |||
Superlative | is pleoraí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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pleorach | phleorach | bpleorach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.