meatonaimeach

Irish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μετωνυμία (metōnumía, “change of name”) (synchronically, meatonaime (“metonymy”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix)), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).

Adjective

meatonaimeach (genitive singular masculine meatonaimigh, genitive singular feminine meatonaimí, plural meatonaimeacha, comparative meatonaimí)

  1. metonymic, metonymical

Declension

Declension of meatonaimeach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative meatonaimeach mheatonaimeach meatonaimeacha;
mheatonaimeacha2
vocative mheatonaimigh meatonaimeacha
genitive meatonaimí meatonaimeacha meatonaimeach
dative meatonaimeach;
mheatonaimeach1 		mheatonaimeach;
mheatonaimigh (archaic) 		meatonaimeacha;
mheatonaimeacha2
Comparative níos meatonaimí
Superlative is meatonaimí

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 meatonaimeach
radical lenition eclipsis
meatonaimeach mheatonaimeach not applicable

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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