tais-scópach

Irish

Etymology

From tais-scóp (hygroscope) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

tais-scópach (genitive singular masculine tais-scópaigh, genitive singular feminine tais-scópaí, plural tais-scópacha, comparative tais-scópaí)

  1. (chemistry, physics) hygroscopic

Declension

Declension of tais-scópach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tais-scópach thais-scópach tais-scópacha;
thais-scópacha2
vocative thais-scópaigh tais-scópacha
genitive tais-scópaí tais-scópacha tais-scópach
dative tais-scópach;
thais-scópach1
thais-scópach;
thais-scópaigh (archaic)
tais-scópacha;
thais-scópacha2
Comparative níos tais-scópaí
Superlative is tais-scópaí

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 tais-scópach
radical lenition eclipsis
tais-scópach thais-scópach dtais-scópach

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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