uireasach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish airesbach (“needy”). Equivalent to uireasa (“lack, want, absence, deficiency”) +‎ -ach

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪɾʲəsˠəx/

Adjective

uireasach

  1. lacking, wanting; deficient
  2. (grammar) defective

Declension
Declension of uireasach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative uireasach uireasach uireasacha
Vocative uireasaigh uireasacha
Genitive uireasaí uireasacha uireasach
Dative uireasach uireasach;
uireasaigh (archaic)		 uireasacha
Comparative níos uireasaí
Superlative is uireasaí

Synonyms

Antonyms

Noun

uireasach m (genitive singular uireasaigh, nominative plural uireasaigh)

  1. person in need
    na boicht agus na huireasaigh ― the poor and the needy

Declension
Declension of uireasach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative uireasach uireasaigh
Vocative a uireasaigh a uireasacha
Genitive uireasaigh uireasach
Dative uireasach uireasaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-uireasach na huireasaigh
Genitive an uireasaigh na n-uireasach
Dative leis an uireasach

don uireasach

 leis na huireasaigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
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uireasach n-uireasach huireasach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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