maiseach

Irish

From Old Irish maisech; synchronically, maise (“adornment, beauty; becomingness, comeliness”) +‎ -ach.

maiseach (genitive singular masculine maisigh, genitive singular feminine maisí, plural maiseacha, comparative maisí)

Declension of maiseach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	maiseach	mhaiseach	maiseacha; mhaiseacha²
Vocative	mhaisigh	mhaiseach	maiseacha
Genitive	mhaisigh	maisí	maiseacha	maiseach
Dative	maiseach; mhaiseach¹	mhaiseach; mhaisigh (archaic)	maiseacha; mhaiseacha²
Comparative	níos maisí
Superlative	is maisí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
maiseach	mhaiseach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

"maiseach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “maisech”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299
Entries containing “maiseach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

From Old Irish maisech; synchronically, maise (“beauty, grace”) +‎ -ach.

maiseach (genitive singular masculine maisich, genitive singular feminine maisiche, comparative maisiche)

beautiful, lovely, handsome, fair, graceful
"A rìbhinn maiseach Sgitheanach" ― "O fair maiden from Skye"
modest
of engaging manners
ornamental
having an imposing appearance

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	maiseach	mhaiseach	maiseach
Vocative	mhaisich	mhaisich	maiseach
Genitive	mhaisich	maisiche	maiseach
Dative	mhaiseach	mhaisich	maiseach

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
maiseach	mhaiseach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “maisech”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

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