gríosach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish grísach.[1][2] By surface analysis, gríos + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gríosach f (genitive singular gríosaí)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- déan gríosach (“to wreak havoc”)
- bagair gríosach (“to threaten havoc or destruction”)
- ón tine chun na gríosaí (“out of the frying pan into the fire”)
Adjective
[edit]gríosach (genitive singular masculine gríosaigh, genitive singular feminine gríosaigh, plural gríosacha, comparative gríosaigh)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | gríosach | ghríosach | gríosacha; ghríosacha2 | |
vocative | ghríosaigh | gríosacha | ||
genitive | gríosaí | gríosacha | gríosach | |
dative | gríosach; ghríosach1 |
ghríosach; ghríosaigh (archaic) |
gríosacha; ghríosacha2 | |
Comparative | níos gríosaí | |||
Superlative | is gríosaí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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gríosach | ghríosach | ngríosach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 grísach (noun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 grísach (adjective)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 136
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gríosaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 385
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gríosach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷʰer-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Irish adjectives