deireanach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Altered from Middle Irish deiredach.[1] By surface analysis, deireadh +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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deireanach (genitive singular masculine deireanaigh, genitive singular feminine deireanaí, plural deireanacha, comparative deireanaí)

  1. last
  2. late (after proper time; advanced in time)
  3. latter, recent, latest

Declension

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Declension of deireanach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative deireanach dheireanach deireanacha;
dheireanacha²
Vocative dheireanaigh deireanacha
Genitive deireanaí deireanacha deireanach
Dative deireanach;
dheireanach¹ 		dheireanach;
dheireanaigh (archaic) 		deireanacha;
dheireanacha²
Comparative níos deireanaí
Superlative is deireanaí

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

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deireanach dheireanach ndeireanach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deiredach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 79

Further reading

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