cuideachtúil

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cuileachtúil
  • cuideachtamhail (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From cuideachta (“company, companionship; social amusement, fun”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cuideachtúil (genitive singular masculine cuideachtúil, genitive singular feminine cuideachtúla, plural cuideachtúla, comparative cuideachtúla)

  1. companionable, sociable, gregarious

Declension

Declension of cuideachtúil
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cuideachtúil chuideachtúil cuideachtúla;
chuideachtúla2
vocative chuideachtúil cuideachtúla
genitive cuideachtúla cuideachtúla cuideachtúil
dative cuideachtúil;
chuideachtúil1 		chuideachtúil cuideachtúla;
chuideachtúla2
Comparative níos cuideachtúla
Superlative is cuideachtúla

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 cuideachtúil
radical lenition eclipsis
cuideachtúil chuideachtúil gcuideachtúil

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

References

  1. ^ “cuideachtúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 268, page 134
  3. ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974) Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 62

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