srónach

Irish

Etymology

From srón +‎ -ach.

Adjective

srónach (genitive singular masculine srónaigh, genitive singular feminine srónaí, plural srónacha, not comparable)

  1. sharp-nosed
  2. snuffling
  3. nosy
  4. (linguistics) nasal

Declension

Declension of srónach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative srónach shrónach srónacha;
shrónacha2
vocative shrónaigh srónacha
genitive srónaí srónacha srónach
dative srónach;
shrónach1
shrónach;
shrónaigh (archaic)
srónacha;
shrónacha2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

srónach m (genitive singular srónaigh, nominative plural srónaigh)

  1. (linguistics) nasal

Noun

srónach

  1. genitive singular of srón

Mutation

Mutated forms of srónach
radical lenition eclipsis
srónach shrónach
after an, tsrónach
not applicable

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