fadchosach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fad- (“long”) +‎ cos (“leg”) + -ach

Pronunciation

Adjective

fadchosach (genitive singular masculine fadchosaigh, genitive singular feminine fadchosaí, plural fadchosacha, comparative fadchosaí)

  1. long-legged

Declension

Declension of fadchosach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative fadchosach fhadchosach fadchosacha;
fhadchosacha2
vocative fhadchosaigh fadchosacha
genitive fadchosaí fadchosacha fadchosach
dative fadchosach;
fhadchosach1 		fhadchosach;
fhadchosaigh (archaic) 		fadchosacha;
fhadchosacha2
Comparative níos fadchosaí
Superlative is fadchosaí

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 fadchosach
radical lenition eclipsis
fadchosach fhadchosach bhfadchosach

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

References

  1. ^ “fadchosach”, 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, § 237, page 120

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