gearreireaballach

Irish

Etymology

From gearr- (“short”) + eireaball (“tail”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

gearreireaballach (genitive singular masculine gearreireaballaigh, genitive singular feminine gearreireaballaí, plural gearreireaballacha, comparative gearreireaballaí)

  1. short-tailed
  2. curtailed, scanty

Declension

Declension of gearreireaballach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gearreireaballach ghearreireaballach gearreireaballacha;
ghearreireaballacha2
vocative ghearreireaballaigh gearreireaballacha
genitive gearreireaballaí gearreireaballacha gearreireaballach
dative gearreireaballach;
ghearreireaballach1 		ghearreireaballach;
ghearreireaballaigh (archaic) 		gearreireaballacha;
ghearreireaballacha2
Comparative níos gearreireaballaí
Superlative is gearreireaballaí

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 gearreireaballach
radical lenition eclipsis
gearreireaballach ghearreireaballach ngearreireaballach

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

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