sladach

Irish

Etymology

From slad (“plunder, pillage, loot; devastate, destroy”, verb) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

sladach (genitive singular masculine sladaigh, genitive singular feminine sladaí, plural sladacha, comparative sladaí)

1. plundering, pillaging, looting
2. devastating, destructive

Declension

Declension of sladach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	sladach	shladach	sladacha; shladacha²
Vocative	shladaigh		sladacha
Genitive		sladaí	sladacha	sladach
Dative	sladach; shladach¹	shladach; shladaigh (archaic)	sladacha; shladacha²
Comparative	níos sladaí
Superlative	is sladaí

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
sladach	shladach after an, tsladach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sladach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “plundering”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sladach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm