deichiú

Irish

Irish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: deich
    Ordinal: deichiú
    Personal: deichniúr

Alternative forms

  • deachmhadh, deicheamhadh, deichmhadh, deichmheadh (superseded)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish dechmad.[2] By surface analysis, deich +‎ -ú. Doublet of deachú.

Adjective

deichiú (not comparable) (abbreviated 10ú)

  1. tenth

Declension

Declension of deichiú
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative deichiú dheichiú deichiú;
dheichiú2
vocative dheichiú deichiú
genitive deichiú deichiú deichiú
dative deichiú;
dheichiú1 		dheichiú deichiú;
dheichiú2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

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 deichiú
radical lenition eclipsis
deichiú dheichiú ndeichiú

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

References

  1. ^ “deichiú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deichiú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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