Pailéiliteach

Irish

Etymology

From pailé- (“palaeo-”) +‎ -lit (“-lith”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

Pailéiliteach (genitive singular masculine Pailéilitigh, genitive singular feminine Pailéilití, plural Pailéiliteacha, not comparable)

  1. Palaeolithic

Declension

Declension of Pailéiliteach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative Pailéiliteach Phailéiliteach Pailéiliteacha;
Phailéiliteacha2
vocative Phailéilitigh Pailéiliteacha
genitive Pailéilití Pailéiliteacha Pailéiliteach
dative Pailéiliteach;
Phailéiliteach1 		Phailéiliteach;
Phailéilitigh (archaic) 		Pailéiliteacha;
Phailéiliteacha2
Comparative níos Pailéilití
Superlative is Pailéilití

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of Pailéiliteach
radical lenition eclipsis
Pailéiliteach Phailéiliteach bPailéiliteach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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