gréasach
Irish
Etymology 1
From gréas (“ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation; decorative design, pattern, figure; needlework, embroidery”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
gréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish grésach (“lasting, perpetual, constant, habitual”, adjective). Compare de ghréas (“habitually, continually, perpetually”).
Adjective
gréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)
Declension
Declension of gréasach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | gréasach | ghréasach | gréasacha; ghréasacha² | |
| Vocative | ghréasaigh | gréasacha | ||
| Genitive | gréasaí | gréasacha | gréasach | |
| Dative | gréasach; ghréasach¹ |
ghréasach; ghréasaigh (archaic) |
gréasacha; ghréasacha² | |
| Comparative | níos gréasaí | |||
| Superlative | is gréasaí | |||
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 |
| gréasach | ghréasach | ngréasach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gréasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “grésach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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