sonasach
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sonas (“happiness; good luck, good fortune”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]sonasach (genitive singular masculine sonasaigh, genitive singular feminine sonasaí, plural sonasacha, comparative sonasaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of sonasach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | sonasach | shonasach | sonasacha; shonasacha² | |
Vocative | shonasaigh | sonasacha | ||
Genitive | sonasaí | sonasacha | sonasach | |
Dative | sonasach; shonasach¹ |
shonasach; shonasaigh (archaic) |
sonasacha; shonasacha² | |
Comparative | níos sonasaí | |||
Superlative | is sonasaí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
sonasach | shonasach after an, tsonasach |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sonasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sonasach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “sonasach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024