cothálach
Irish
Adjective
cothálach (genitive singular masculine cothálaigh, genitive singular feminine cothálaí, plural cothálacha, comparative cothálaí)
- Alternative form of cothabhálach (“sustaining, nourishing; productive of sustenance”)
Declension
Declension of cothálach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | cothálach | chothálach | cothálacha; chothálacha² | |
| Vocative | chothálaigh | cothálacha | ||
| Genitive | cothálaí | cothálacha | cothálach | |
| Dative | cothálach; chothálach¹ |
chothálach; chothálaigh (archaic) |
cothálacha; chothálacha² | |
| Comparative | níos cothálaí | |||
| Superlative | is cothálaí | |||
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 |
| cothálach | chothálach | gcothálach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- "cothálach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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