cruabhéalach

Irish

Etymology

From crua (“hard”) +‎ béal (“mouth”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cruabhéalach (genitive singular masculine cruabhéalaigh, genitive singular feminine cruabhéalaí, plural cruabhéalacha, comparative cruabhéalaí)

  1. hard-mouthed (of horse)

Declension

Declension of cruabhéalach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cruabhéalach chruabhéalach cruabhéalacha;
chruabhéalacha2
vocative chruabhéalaigh cruabhéalacha
genitive cruabhéalaí cruabhéalacha cruabhéalach
dative cruabhéalach;
chruabhéalach1 		chruabhéalach;
chruabhéalaigh (archaic) 		cruabhéalacha;
chruabhéalacha2
Comparative níos cruabhéalaí
Superlative is cruabhéalaí

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 cruabhéalach
radical lenition eclipsis
cruabhéalach chruabhéalach gcruabhéalach

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

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.