bacánach

Irish

Etymology

From bacán (“hinge hook”) +‎ -ach (adjective suffix).

Adjective

bacánach (genitive singular masculine bacánaigh, genitive singular feminine bacánaí, plural bacánacha, not comparable)

  1. crooked, hinged

Declension

Declension of bacánach
Positive singular plural
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

Mutation

Mutated forms of bacánach
radical lenition eclipsis
bacánach bhacánach mbacánach

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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