gealchroíoch

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From geal (“bright”) +‎ croí (“heart”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gealchroíoch (genitive singular masculine gealchroíoch, genitive singular feminine gealchroíche, plural gealchroíocha, comparative gealchroíche)

  1. lighthearted

Declension

Declension of gealchroíoch
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gealchroíoch ghealchroíoch gealchroíocha;
ghealchroíocha2
vocative ghealchroíoch gealchroíocha
genitive gealchroíche gealchroíocha gealchroíoch
dative gealchroíoch;
ghealchroíoch1 		ghealchroíoch gealchroíocha;
ghealchroíocha2
Comparative níos gealchroíche
Superlative is gealchroíche

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 gealchroíoch
radical lenition eclipsis
gealchroíoch ghealchroíoch ngealchroíoch

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

References

  1. ^ “gealchroíoch”, 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, § 254, page 129

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