gáifeach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • gábhach, gábhthach, gáibhtheach[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáibthech (“dangerous, terrible”).[2] By surface analysis, gábh +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gáifeach (genitive singular masculine gáifigh, genitive singular feminine gáifí, plural gáifeacha, comparative gáifí)

  1. loud (of a colour, clothing etc.)
  2. exaggerated, sensational, overblown
  3. flamboyant, ostentatious

Declension

Declension of gáifeach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gáifeach gháifeach gáifeacha;
gháifeacha2
vocative gháifigh gáifeacha
genitive gáifí gáifeacha gáifeach
dative gáifeach;
gháifeach1 		gháifeach;
gháifigh (archaic) 		gáifeacha;
gháifeacha2
Comparative níos gáifí
Superlative is gáifí

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 gáifeach
radical lenition eclipsis
gáifeach gháifeach ngáifeach

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

References

  1. ^ “gáifeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáibthech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 122
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 319, page 112

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