airneánach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • airneálach

Etymology

From airneán (“night-visiting; sitting up late at night”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

airneánach (genitive singular masculine airneánaigh, genitive singular feminine airneánaí, plural airneánacha, comparative airneánaí)

  1. fond of night-visiting, of sitting up late

Declension

Declension of airneánach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative airneánach airneánach airneánacha
vocative airneánaigh airneánacha
genitive airneánaí airneánacha airneánach
dative airneánach airneánach;
airneánaigh (archaic) 		airneánacha
Comparative níos airneánaí
Superlative is airneánaí

Noun

airneánach m (genitive singular airneánaigh, nominative plural airneánaigh)

  1. one who is fond of night-visiting, of sitting up late
    Synonyms: airneálaí, airneánaí

Declension

Declension of airneánach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative airneánach airneánaigh
vocative a airneánaigh a airneánacha
genitive airneánaigh airneánach
dative airneánach airneánaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-airneánach na hairneánaigh
genitive an airneánaigh na n-airneánach
dative leis an airneánach
don airneánach 		leis na hairneánaigh
  • lucht airneáin (“night-visitors”)
  • oíche airneáin (“a night's visiting; a social evening”)
  • teach airneáin (“a house frequented by night-visitors”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of airneánach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
airneánach n-airneánach hairneánach t-airneánach

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

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