barrchas
Irish
Adjective
barrchas (genitive singular masculine barrchais, genitive singular feminine barrchaise, plural barrchasa, comparative barrchaise)
- ringleted
- Synonyms: bachallach, búclach, caschiabhach, caslúbach, drolach, failíoch, fáinneach, feamainneach
Declension
Declension of barrchas
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | barrchas | bharrchas | barrchasa; bharrchasa² | |
| Vocative | bharrchais | barrchasa | ||
| Genitive | barrchaise | barrchasa | barrchas | |
| Dative | barrchas; bharrchas¹ |
bharrchas; bharrchais (archaic) |
barrchasa; bharrchasa² | |
| Comparative | níos barrchaise | |||
| Superlative | is barrchaise | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| barrchas | bharrchas | mbarrchas |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barrchas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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