cráifeach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • crábhthach, cráibhtheach[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish cráibdech, cráifech (“pious, faithful”), from crábud (“piety, devotion, religion”) + -ach (compare modern crábhadh).[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

cráifeach (genitive singular masculine cráifigh, genitive singular feminine cráifí, plural cráifeacha, comparative cráifí)

  1. religious
  2. pious, devout

Declension

Declension of cráifeach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cráifeach chráifeach cráifeacha;
chráifeacha2
vocative chráifigh cráifeacha
genitive cráifí cráifeacha cráifeach
dative cráifeach;
chráifeach1 		chráifeach;
chráifigh (archaic) 		cráifeacha;
chráifeacha2
Comparative níos cráifí
Superlative is cráifí

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

  • crábhadh m (“religious practice; piety, devotion”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cráifeach
radical lenition eclipsis
cráifeach chráifeach gcráifeach

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

References

  1. ^ “cráifeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cráibdech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 319, page 112

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