bacánach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bacán (“hinge hook”) + -ach (adjective suffix).
Adjective
[edit]bacánach (genitive singular masculine bacánaigh, genitive singular feminine bacánaí, plural bacánacha, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bacánach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | bacánach | bhacánach | bacánacha; bhacánacha² | |
| Vocative | bhacánaigh | bacánacha | ||
| Genitive | bacánaí | bacánacha | bacánach | |
| Dative | bacánach; bhacánach¹ |
bhacánach; bhacánaigh (archaic) |
bacánacha; bhacánacha² | |
| Comparative | níos bacánaí | |||
| Superlative | is bacánaí | |||
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
[edit]- alt bacánach m (“hinge joint”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bacánach | bhacánach | mbacánach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bacánach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “bacánach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024